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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”
After years of rumors and secret development beginning in 2005, Apple unveiled the iPhone at Macworld on January 9, 2007, and released it in the United States on June 29, 2007. It broke with prevailing phone design by ditching most physical buttons for a finger-friendly 3.5-inch multi-touch display that needed no stylus, running on a Samsung S5L8900 SoC with quad-band GSM connectivity. People loved it because it felt
It quickly became Apple's most successful product, though European enthusiasm was more muted — the iPhone appealed to the general public rather than the business community that BlackBerry and IBM courted. By 2011, it was discontinued, having quietly retired into the phones that replaced it. What it left behind was everything: the touchscreen world we all live in now traces straight back to it.
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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“It put the future in our pockets, then got pocketed itself.”