My girl got one to, she loves it.
What's your favorite piece of technology from the last decade?
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My girl got one to, she loves it.
My point isn't about which was the first to market, it's about which one made more of an impact. The Prada has barely left the imprint of a little toe, but the iPhone's massive footprint is still shaking the smartphone landscape.Yeah, but it won't make them any less wrong. So I will be able to feel all elitist and special
That said I'm not disputing iPhone's influence, just the "so much ahead at launch" part.
I didn't catch your edit in time. Yes the Prada was first. But it's like the difference between John Cabot and Christopher Columbus: they both were trailblazers, but only one of them has a day named after him. The other guy didn't know what he'd found.
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Actually I think Wikipedia is more impressive than smartphones. If you told me a decade ago that we would have cell phones that could basically do all the functions of a computer and have an intuitive touch interface, I would believe that is possible.
But if you told me that an online encyclopedia would have the popularity and influence to change intrusive piracy legislation just by taking their site down for one day in protest, I would never have believed you.
Smartphones are just the way of getting information while sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Wolfram, etc are the actual sources of information that most people wouldn't have imagined before this millennium.
But if you told me that an online encyclopedia would have the popularity and influence to change intrusive piracy legislation just by taking their site down for one day in protest, I would never have believed you.
Smartphones are just the way of getting information while sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Wolfram, etc are the actual sources of information that most people wouldn't have imagined before this millennium.
To be fair, the huge guys in the online ecosystem all influence each other. The idea of a wiki is so ubiquitous now it's tough to imagine an Internet without it.
OpinionatedCyborg
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Yeah, I suppose I forgot about wikipedia and youtube since they were the earlier part of the decade, but they were game changers. Before, finding information online was a total crapshoot. The search engines were shitty until google came along and all of the information was scattered across the web on pages designed by amateurs. Now you just google whatever it is you need to know and read the wikipedia article and its associated sources.
Wiktor
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Sure, no doubt about that. I agree with general notion, just not with the timestamp, in that iPhone's true impact started not at launch, but a year after it.
That's fair enough. I tend to think of the app store being wrapped into the idea of the iPhone, but you're right. It wasn't really feature complete in the sense that it is now until months after launching.
Dreams-Visions
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iPhone.
Xbox 360 and my Denon D7000 headphones are tied for second.
Xbox 360 and my Denon D7000 headphones are tied for second.
Seraphinianus
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So, what's your explanation for the iphone's success over the amazing LG Prada? Apple fans?
also....
Sounds like the iphone was already pretty damn far ahead of it right out the gate
I'm dumbfounded not to see HDTVs as a major player in this conversation. Circa 2000, the vast majority of TVs being sold were tube TVs with comparatively small screens, without widescreen aspect ratios, and that took up a ton of space and weighed a billion pounds.
Maybe the technology technically predates the decade, but when it was popularized counts for more than when it was conceived, imo.
Maybe the technology technically predates the decade, but when it was popularized counts for more than when it was conceived, imo.
But that isn't in the picture. The picture just shows how all phones nowadays look the same, and people commented with "amazing" and "wow", that's what confused me, since I still think that when you're making a touchscreen based phone, it will look like this.
I'm not doubting the influence the iPhone in any way. I just think it's weird to say that all of them copied the complete look of the iPhone. (which I think the pic is highly suggesting)
Host Samurai
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I think its pretty crazy how the 360 is pretty much a completely different console from when it first launched. Its pretty amazing to think about just what these consoles can do besides play dvds, music and games.
PuppetSlave
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It just shows how much HDTVs has integrated with society. People just don't think about it anymore and take them for granted.
The idea of an all-touchscreen device with a functional and adaptable UI was not really in place before the iPhone. That's without mentioning the Apple understanding of the entire device deferring to the screen.
That virtually every smartphone manufacturer immediately jumped onto the iPhone-style design train shows something more of a profound change than a simple "they all have touchscreens."
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Old technology meets state-of-the-art technology. Mind blowing.
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Old technology meets state-of-the-art technology. Mind blowing.
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The iPad, I used to be a skeptic but now I LOVE this thing. If encoding anime was not such a pain it would be a perfect machine.
The definition of technology is actually very, very broad. It encompasses pretty much anything that is used to solve problems. That includes smart phones and many other products.
It covers everything from well-shaped rocks to high-tech transistors, to entire power plants.
mclaren777
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I'm surprised by the immense smartphone-love.
My vote: 1080p HDTVs
My vote: 1080p HDTVs
Wiktor
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Explanation? Why would it be needed? In world of electronics and games the most innovative stuff is pretty much never influential at all. Only later on, when somebody takes the half-baked idea, polishes it to proper standard and then releases it as great product that everybody takes a notice and starts copying it. Also, they added browsing and email in update later on.
In all honesty, there really was nothing truly new or innovative that iPhone did , but it doesn't change it's influence over the whole market
Liberty4all
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I'm not surprised. 7 or 8 years ago I think a lot would have said HDTV. My first HDTV combined with a launch 360 blew me away. Nowadays however our smartphones and tablets (the Internet really) are eating into how much time we watch TV and play games on consoles.
My vote goes to tablets. The iPad changed my life. It's freed me from my desk, it gives me on demand mobile TV, instant mobile net access (in a way I find much more useful than my iPhone and desktop when at home), it's an e reader, music player, etc, etc. 4 years ago I would have said netbooks if asked the same question in the OP .... Now definitely tablets (I have both an iPad 1 and a Playbook).
Smartphones come a very close second for me, I do love my iPhone too it's great while on the go. But tablets have been the biggest game changer for me, changing how I surf and interact with online content (by touch instead of mouse, and by apps instead of pure browsing).
I had my tablet first so maybe that's why it made a much bigger impact on me than iPhone.
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Gamechanger? Worldchanger.
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