“Ten years ago, Nokia was the world’s largest phone maker. Microsoft was gearing up to launch Windows Vista,” Shara Tibken writes for CNET. “And the best new products at CES included a wireless TV and an MP3 player that streamed internet radio.”
“Then, on Jan. 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a device that went on to change the world — a $499 iPhone that came with 4GB of storage. It was a mobile phone, a music player and an Internet device,” Tibken writes. “‘iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,’ Jobs said at the time.”
“Since then, Apple has sold more than 1.2 billion iPhones and has become the most profitable public company in the world. Copycat phones from companies like Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Xiaomi proliferated across the globe, and now even people in places without steady electricity have smartphones,” Tibken writes. “‘It’s difficult to understate [the iPhone’s] impact,’ Reticle Research analyst Ross Rubin said. ‘The ripples it has created affect wide swaths of our lives.'”
10 ways Steve Jobs’ iPhone changed everything:
1. We’re always on
2. Tablets, watches and headphones, oh my
3. The key to appiness
4. Everyone’s a shutterbug
5. Livin’ live
6. Putting the digits in digital
7. You are here
8. Gaming goes to the next level
9. Cash ain’t king
10. But wait — there’s more
All X points above elucidated in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Fragmandroid settlers are in for a rude awakening this week as the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of The Jesus Phone is marked. That’s right fragtards, you stuck yourselves with inferior, insecure, copycat clones.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
And, here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
People who buy Android phones and tablets reward thieves.
SEE ALSO:
Apple reaps 106% of smartphone industry profits – November 21, 2016
Google announces Google-branded iPhone knockoffs, again – October 4, 2016
Why Google really, truly, deeply hates Apple – May 30, 2014
Prior to Steve Jobs unveiling of Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android didn’t support touchscreen input – April 14, 2014
Before iPhone, Google’s plan was a Java button phone, Android docs reveal – April 14, 2014
How Google reacted when Steve Jobs revealed the revolutionary iPhone – December 19, 2013
Apple to ITC: Android started at Apple while Andy Rubin worked for us – September 2, 2011
