Similarly, "Steve Jobs invented the ____"
I'm sort of OK with calling the iPhone an invention because it was a big improvement in several areas at the same time, but apart from that?
My understanding is that he often came up with ideas for products and 'forced' engineers to find a way to make it possible. He wasn't very technical, but in a way that was a strength.
That's why iPhone clones turned up almost immediately. Management said to their devs, ok now Apple has done it, you can make that thing you've been wanting to make for ages. The capability was there, what was missing was the belief that something better was possible and needed.