Today? My iPhone lets me carry my entire digital world in my pocket. And it does it with such ease that I forget, on a regular basis, that the things I do now, every single day, weren't just inconvenient 10 years ago, they were impossible. If I wanted music, I carried an iPod that I loaded from the library that lived only on my iMac, where all of my writing, pictures, and emails lived. Ten years ago, my cellphone was a communication device. There are icons to tap, virtual keyboards to fat-finger texts, and gestures to zoom in, zoom out, and swipe our way to every corner of the internet. But the core experience is still the same. The iPhone itself has grown bigger and gotten slimmer since that Gen 1 device, with its two-tone brushed aluminum casing, and the operating system has evolved, giving us quicker access to our information with every iteration. Today's kids understand better than their parents that the Internet is forever and that nothing is ever truly "private." They grew up in a decade where their every move was instantly shared with friends, family, and followers alike. Discover the joy and pain of a reality where we can instantly post anything to the internet. The iPhone and all the devices it's inspired in the decade since its inception have gone beyond "convenience" to "lifeline." Our iPhones are our constant companions, letting us escape into mobile games that once required entire separate gaming systems to run (between Final Fantasy, Pathfinder, and Hearthstone, it's a wonder I get anything done during the day), access the world's library of digitized music, and browse practically all of human knowledge (the good, the bad, and the Reddit). To work, to our friends, to those that we want to be like and want to be like us. In the decade that's followed, the iPhone has triggered a societal shift. We are always connected. But it certainly was a lot better than having to wait to use the desktop for everything! OK, so maybe it wasn't "simple" back then. That first iPhone introduced us to the concept of apps and social media on-the-go. Overnight, a new world of sharing (and oversharing) your every moment and meal with your followers became as simple as taking a picture, going to the Facebook for iPhone page in Safari on your iPhone, then resharing. A Phone. And an Internet communicator." The iPhone was unlike anything that had come before it. It combined a mobile phone and a music player in an easy to use package, leveraging (some might say cannibalizing) the popularity of the iPod.
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It will be available for free to all users this fall.Jobs stood on stage on Januand unveiled "An iPod. “Say, what time should I show up for work?”Īpple made a developer preview available to conference attendees today. “Thanks for creating such amazing apps,” he said. “How you doing this is Dre,” said the rapper who is joining the company as part of a $3 billion deal for headphone-maker Beats Electronics. To show off the feature, Federighi placed a call from his desktop to new Apple employee Dr. The system can also be used to place and answer phone calls and text messages that come to a phone on a nearby computer. A user can, for example, begin composing an email on an iPhone and automatically finish writing it on a nearby desktop computer.
Executives previewed changes to the software’s Notification Center, Spotlight search, Maps, Calendar, Messages, and Safari web browser.Ī system dubbed “continuity” is intended to allow iOS devices and Macs to communicate seamlessly. OS X Yosemite also includes a “Dark Mode” that minimizes the translucency effect and introduces a darker color palette.