What Apple developed was evolutionary, not revolutionary. Microsoft had had full screen windows PDAs for a long time. And of course there were blackberry smartphones. It was obvious that these things were going to some together. Apple just did first, and did a better job than anybody else, and maybe they pushed things ahead a year.
What Tesla did was going to happen anyway, too. But I'd say that Tesla pushed it all ahead by a decade. Witness the fact that the competition still doesn't have a car equivalent to the 2012 Model S, 7 years later. It's still evolutionary, but a much much bigger leap.