Apple iPhone Application Downloads
If the Apple iPhone is the symbol of a generation then it is not of the 00’s teenager, but of the MobiCom Revolution. Computers, with ever-shrinking sizes and ever increasing computing power are harnessing mobile technology and becoming mobile devices; mobile devices (once largely restricted to telephones and – remember these? – pagers) are harnessing massive computing power and becoming computers.
Back to the iPhone. While it is undoubtedly a feat of marketing and design brilliance, it is simply a sample of the mobile devices currently available. All much lighter than any computer that has been on sale previously, and many much more powerful. Is it a computer? Is it a phone? This is the question (and we can add ‘Is it a camera?’ to that list) that is fueling the MobiCom Revolution.
Does size matter? Not anymore. While small isn’t perfect (think about Word Processing on your iPhone without a keyboard attached: possible but you’re going to
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