While the iPhone was once considered just a fancy, expensive cellphone by some — it’s now obvious, five years after its initial launch, that the iPhone continues to revolutionize mobile phones and computing.
“The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters,” according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball.
Gruber suggests that the iPhone was the “world’s best portable computer… It was the best because it was always there, always on, always just a button-push away. The disruption was not that we now finally had a nice phone; it was that, for better or for worse, we would now never again be without a computer or the Internet. It was the Mac side of Apple, not the iPod side, that set the engineering foundation for the iPhone.”
The post claims that in the past five years, Apple has “destroyed the handset industry by disrupting the computer industry.”
“Today, cell phones are apps, not devices,” notes Gruber. “The companies that were the most successful at selling cell phones pre-iPhone are now dead or dying. Amazon, Google, and now even Microsoft are designing and selling their own integrated touchscreen portable tablets. ‘App’ is now a household word. All of this, because of the iPhone.”
While the iPhone was once considered just a fancy, expensive cellphone by some — it’s now obvious, five years after its initial launch, that the iPhone continues to revolutionize mobile phones and computing.
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