The iPhone Turns 5 Today
Has it already been five years? Still, it’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t have the iPhone and all its smart phone competitors. How did we manage?
From Fred Jacobs blog:
[T]his little device has changed our lives. Thomas Hazlett (a law professor at George Mason University) wrote a great piece in the Wall Street Journal cataloging the history of the iconic device, the long lines that accompanied its debut, and some of the wrong-headed predictions that never came to pass.
When it first came out, Columbia University law professor Tim Wu called it “iPhony” when analyzing Apple’s business model. In contrast, the Atlantic recently called the iPhone “the defining consumer item of its age.”
Now we all know that the App Store took another year to come to fruition, and perhaps its invention was the “killer app” of the iPhone and the smartphones that followed it.