SMARTPHONE TECHNOLOGY
After a decade iPhone keeps making waves
Putting the internet in people’s pockets, and on tablet computers, has profoundly changed the way people watch films, get news, socialise and work
Las Vegas — The smartphone continues to change the world a decade after the debut of the iPhone, even as Apple is under pressure to come up with a new wonder. The iPhone — introduced by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9 2007 — set the stage for mobile computing and an entire industry revolving around it. The handsets built on iPod digital music players and featured touchscreens at a time when the smartphone market was ruled by BlackBerry devices with keypads. Jobs billed his smartphone approach as blending liberal arts, design and technology. What was not obvious at the time was how iPhone’s focus on apps would send people rocketing along a path to tweeting, Snapping, Pokemon Go, live streaming video, and more. "Apple gets credit for the apps that brought the mobile computing platform to your pocket," Gartner analyst Brian Blau told AFP at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that ended on Sunday in Las Vegas. "Today, it is hard to make a consumer electronics product with...
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