Anyone remember the ROKR? Feh.
Get the article while you can ...
Just wondering, are they honest enough to trace back to here?
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/
It has stopped sending emails to yahoo. Birth defect ?
It’s hard to think of an invention, in our lifetime, that rivals the iPhone. From nothing to everyone must own one. Many of my non technical friends embrace it. Sure we had laptops and cellphones, but this brought technology to a level where the masses got on board.
Example, as I gaze out the window, my neighbor walks his dog; staring at his phone, not his dog. A quantum shift in our interaction with the outside world has occurred.
We will be hearing more of these genesis stories in the future.
what do you do for an encore?
in 5 years, what we now call an iPhone
will be selling for ten bucks.
This article is not behind a paywall. A trick I use for WSJ articles is to get them from Google News. Google for some reason usually has the entire text of WSJ articles when they are not available on the WSJ web site.
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LOL, makes sense - after 2003, Jobs was under intense pressure from Hillary to come out with a product WITHOUT a keyboard.
Anyone remember the ROKR? Feh.