July 2009
Beginner
416 pages
12h 12m
English
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Introduction
How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is "use statistics"—25 million sold in the first two years, availability in 85 countries, 60,000 downloadable programs on the iPhone App Store, 1.25 billion downloads in the first year. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before you've finished typing them.
Maybe it's better to talk about the aftermath. How since the iPhone came along, cell carriers (AT&T, Verizon, and so on) have opened up the calcified, conservative way they used to consider new cellphone designs. How every phone and its brother now have a touchscreen. How BlackBerry, Palm Pre, Google (Android) phones, and even Windows Mobile phones all have their own app stores. How, in essence, everybody wants to be the iPhone.
The thing is, they can chase the iPhone all they want—but they'll never quite catch up, because Apple is always moving, too. In July 2009, for example, it introduced the third iPhone model, the iPhone 3GS. The S is supposed to stand for "speed," and yes, the new phone is much faster than the old. It also has a few new features, including video recording, voice dialing, a better camera, and a compass—which comes in handy more often than you might think.
More importantly, there's a new, free version of the iPhone's software, called iPhone 3.0. It adds all kinds of new features people have been pining for: Copy and Paste, a whole-phone Search, picture and video messaging, an audio recorder, wireless Bluetooth ...
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