“The iPhone, introduced five years ago, has changed how people do business in many crucial ways,” Clint Boulton reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“The smartphone’s easily accessible touch screen and speedy web browser, modern iOS operating system and software store made the device the equivalent of a mobile PC that blurred the line between work and play,” Boulton reports. “But more importantly, it changed people’s expectations about business technology forever, and in many crucial ways. Here are 5:”
• Consumerization of the employee
• Appification of software
• Long-term networking evolution
• Paperless office at last
• The Humanization of IT
Read more in the full article here.
Well uhhhf course!!!!
Paperless-ness has been my favorite part. It’s great to never have to print out an email or voucher or anything ever. I got rid of my (crappy HP) printer years ago.
Exactly. For instance, with quality apps like SignNow, I can receive and review proofs via email, sign off on the screen, and return it. Faster than snail mail, cleaner and more mobile than fax. Inexpensive with a paper trail only WHEN I absolutely need it.
Apple has changed the world on a fairly regular basis and continues to do so in ways Microsoft can only dream of and wish they had the ball(mer)s to carry out. That’s what you get when you focus only on your cash cows, which as Princess Leia once said in so many words “The more you tighten your legacy grip, the more superior technology, change to the next thing and innovation will slip through your fingers.”
“…made the device the equivalent of a mobile PC…”, Clint Boulton reports for The Wall Street Journal.
Some people are finally starting to ‘get it’.
Stevejack nailed it when it was first released in 2007: http://macdailynews.com/2007/06/29/fortune_how_apple_iphone_will_change_computing/
I think that’s what Steve had in mind the whole time: A hand-held mini mac computer incorporating a phone. I think he succeeded, brilliantly.
Steve Jobs: “If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.” — Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996