TIME’s “50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time” ranks Apple’s iPhone No. 1.
TIME’s write-up goes like this:
The tech that forever changed the way we live, work, and play
Think of the gear you can’t live without: The smartphone you constantly check. The camera that goes with you on every vacation. The TV that serves as a portal to binge-watching and -gaming. Each owes its influence to one model that changed the course of technology for good.
It’s those devices we’re recognizing in this list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time.
Rather than rank technologies—writing, electricity, and so on—we chose to rank gadgets, the devices by with consumers let the future creep into their present. The list—which is ordered by influence—was assembled and deliberated on at (extreme) length by TIME’s technology and business editors, writers and reporters.
Apple products on the list include:
1. Apple iPhone
3. Apple Macintosh
9. Apple iPod
25. Apple iPad
38. Apple iBook
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We shudder to think of where we’d be today – and what absolute dreck we’d all be trying to use – without Apple.
What’s missing and what shouldn’t be on TIME’s list?
The wife says #10 should be much higher on the list. No. 2. She still thinks iPhone is No. 1.
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The wife?
Yeah. Whenever ask her, “Want a quickie?”
She replies, “As opposed to what?”
I’d put iPad way higher than what Time has it…hell, it has replaced books..BOOKS! You know, those paper things with inked characters on them that has been the tool of communicating ideas since Gutenberg.
Apple products such as the iPhone, iPod and Mac are NOT gadgets!
A gadget is something that can turn table lamps on and off when you clap your hands.
Seems I recall a few years ago saying that of all the products Apple has built it will be the iPhone that will be most remembered because of its impact on society.
I got a lot of flack for that….
The HP-35 introduced in 1972 needs the be on this list. Slide rules disappeared soon afterwards.
The Slide Rule itself should be on the list. . .
Whats interesting is that “Apple” was mentioned 24 times in the list where as “Microsoft” 2 times. Google 7 times though most of them related to Glass and Nest which are at best dead.
*times in the post
The only thing google glass gave us was glassholes and it was only really influential in comedy routines.
Of all time?!!
Kinda missed the clock, microwave oven, handheld blowdryer, Mr Coffee … and simple plastic tape (before that most tape was cloth with gummy glue or tar). *Everyone* but everyone bought these things.
Google Nest/Glass & Sony DiscMan? Puleeeze!