“Almost everything Apple’s touched, from their retail stores to new or updated devices such as the iPhone 3G, the fourth-generation iPod nano and the well-established iMacs and MacBooks have set records, or come close to it,” Garry Barker reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
“The iPhone was Apple’s triumph of 2008, dubbed by Time Magazine the invention of the year. That award must have been all the sweeter in Cupertino, given that so many gurus of the telecommunications industry had told Apple it knew nothing about telephones and would wind up with a hatful of eggs, mostly of the curate variety,” Barker reports.
“But the gurus failed to realise that phones are now hand-held computers, in constant contact with the global internet, that can also be used to make calls. And Apple is the leading innovator of the computer industry,” Barker reports. “The advent of iPhone 3G turned the mobile phone industry on its head.”
At Apple, “innovations continue to flow and there is no sign of a slowdown,” Barker reports.
“This year was also when MobileMe, Apple’s move into ‘cloud’ computing, was launched. Its many early problems produced red faces at Apple and a humble and honest admission of error and omission,” Barker reports. “But within a month or so, it had settled down and users now take for granted that emails, calendars, contacts and other information are automatically synchronised to Macs, PCs, iPhones and iPod touch devices without stirring the grey cells.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mrsteve1” for the heads up.]