Invention Of the Year: The iPhone
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iPhone chosen as Time magazine invention of the year
Time magazine has chosen Apple’s “JesusPhone” as the invention of the year. Apple’s cell phone won with other inventions from the fields of environmentally friendly technology, molecular science, robotics or military.
Judges seemed to have mostly surrendered to iPhone’s hype: “Intel’s 45-nanometer (parts for chips) - that’s a serious deal, but it’s a lot less glamorous than the iPhone even though it’s important,” said Lev Grossman Time magazine technology editor and a member of the jury.
Last year that award went to YouTube internet site for the idea of creating a place on the internet where people could share their videos with the rest of the world.
Time gives five reasons why they have chosen iPhone this year.
- “The iPhone is pretty”: it gives the user a chance to feel “smart and attractive” while using an iPhone. Time praises its functionality as well.
- “It’s touchy-feely”: operating an iPhone by using a touch screen controls seems to create a new direction in development of IT industry, quoting Time:”Touching is the new seeing.”.
- “It will make other phones better”. By negotiating with service providers Steve Jobs made way for other producer to demand the same. That can result in manufacturers making better, more innovative mobiles.
- “It’s not a phone, it’s a platform”. By adapting a OS X operating system to the needs of an iPhone its creators made it a fully fledged handheld computer: “the first device that really deserves the name.”. An iPhone will also soon be a platform for software developers other than those working for Apple, what makes it even more interesting.
- “It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come”. With the software interface it has iPhone will surely develop: “iPhone is built to evolve.”. And with prices very likely to be dropped the iPhone is likely to find some more fans in the future.
After Stuff magazine, Time magazine is the second mainstream mag to award the award for the biggest innovation of the year to Apple’s iPhone — before the year is over.
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TIP: One tap hack, AppSnapp Installer for 1.1.1
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TIP: Stream iPhone music to your PC
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Other mobile phone makers find this Halloween costume terrifying
Here’s a tip for would-be trick-or-treaters hoping for a big score at the Michaels homestead next Halloween. Go the extra mile with your costume. Anyone can slap on a pre-fabricated mask and call it a day, but if it looks like your costume required brainstorming, planning, and a rigorous process of peer-review, then the least I can do is make sure some extra candy winds up in your sack. Better still if you can come up with a costume that appeals to my assorted interests and hobbies.
So you can imagine the young lady in the upper left earned herself a fistful of candy when she showed up at my door Wednesday night dressed as an iPhone. You can’t see it in the thumbnail image, but she even went to the trouble of including an AT&T logo in the upper left corner of her phone’s interface — so it’s clear she didn’t dress up as an unlocked iPhone.
A cursory search on Flickr reveals that the iPhone was the costume choice for more than one reveler this Halloween — and that includes trick-or-treaters of the four-legged variety.
So how about you? Did you open the door to any kid-sized iPhones demanding candy last night?
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Written by Philip Michaels on November 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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