“I feel led to do something never done before by your columnist during 18 holiday seasons, short, long or otherwise. While I’ve always selected some ‘product(s) of the year,’ I’ve never anointed one as a ‘product of the decade.’ Though this particular product first appeared in 2007, its impact has been large enough to overshadow just about everything else that has come on the market since Jan. 1, 2000,” Kellner writes.
“Of course, it’s Apple Inc.’s iPhone, now in its third iteration, the iPhone 3GS, released on June 19. More and more, I’m convinced that this tiny, still-less-than-5-ounce, color-screened marvel is just that, a marvelous creation. In many ways, it could (and does) replace even a lightweight notebook computer for many daily tasks, putting computing in a whole different sphere,” Kellner writes. “You could say the iPhone is, more than any of its current competitors, a Swiss Army knife of mobile devices.”
Kellner writes, “Nothing else I’ve seen so far marries so many functions in so small a package. Nothing else I’ve seen is easier to use or has as wide a range of accessories and peripherals, let alone so many applications that can be added easily. In short, the iPhone has changed the way many of us look at computing, and that may happen only once or twice in a lifetime and certainly not more than once in a decade.”
Full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: And there you have it: Steve Jobs has changed the world yet again. We simply cannot imagine going about our daily business without our iPhones.
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