“In museums of the future, the iPhone will mark the step in human evolution towards the time when we all have chips in our skulls, augmenting our brains with all the knowledge and capacities of artificial intelligence,” Philip Delves Broughton writes for The Financial Times. “It will mark the crude phase when we slid our fingers around a glass screen and listened through wireless headphones, en route to surfing the digital world with a snap of a cortical synapse.”
“I know there are those who will say these are the ravings of a starry-eyed Apple ‘fanboy.’ Because this is what happens when a product becomes so popular and so divisive: with Apple, just as with Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber, you become either a fanboy or a ‘hater,'” Broughton writes. “The reactions are cultish.”
“Apple is a less likeable company today than it was. Rampant success and colossal success does that. But its achievements over the decade since the iPhone was born are astounding,” Broughton writes. “People will bicker about the Apple Watch — though I’m noticing more and more of them on people I never expected — and the labyrinthine Apple Music service. But Apple has emphatically not become Sony or HP, dragged down by poor margins on products and services. In a world where 10-year corporate strategies are rewritten every six months, Apple has rarely deviated from the path established by Jobs.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yes, iPhone certainly is a fitting tribute.
#1: A true Mac user should have an iPhone and an Apple Watch. Without all three, you cannot appreciate, much less take full advantage of Continuity and the Apple ecosystem.
#2: As we wrote earlier today: “Removing obstacles between the human brain and the Internet is the goal.”
#3. To anyone who “hates” Apple and therefore settles for a poor facsimile of an iPhone or suffers along with an upside-down and backwards Mac: We laugh at you. Because you’re funny. And stupid.
Funny thing MDN…
I didn’t become a cynic (hater to you) until I was a customer for a year and a half. My 2009 MBP and iPhone 3G were the almost last straw, though I did add a trashcan and two since then.
2 ipads…
Apple sinner, stop wasting our time. Go to PC (pissy) daily news and Troll Your Stories of tech woe there. /s
Do you always speak religiously when it comes to Apple?
apple cynic wrote: “though I did add a trashcan AND two since then.”
Parents basement dwelling PC gamer.
Yeah. That’s it.
See I have real dialogue with some people here and it’s quite enlightening. Then there’s the likes of you that just makes me feel nicer and smarter. Win-win.
Everyone’s time is limited. Use what gives you the most great results in the least time.
You can NEVER recover lost time.
“crude phase when we slid our fingers around a glass screen”
No, the Blackberry, Nokia, as well as other 2006 phones running some form of Windows is what I would call crude.
What about: a pro Mac user should have a proper Mac Pro?
There is another choice between fanboy or hater: it’s called “Just don’t give a shit, either way”
Hey
Readers…
So whats MDN take on Trump 1.) 2.) I applied for a job at Apple but they did not reply? Any ideas why?
3.) Can a hot American Girl please marry me and steal me. 😉