22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
9:23 a.m.
On 1/22/10 3:27 AM, Michael S. Hart wrote:
Just one little correction/emendation:
Apple's iPhone wasn't first to "put the web in our pocket."
As I recall it is not that old.
I have phones with browsers and wifi that are TWICE as old!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The bird is right when he says that the iPhone put the the web in our pockets in the sense that it, just like the iPod before it, had almost next to nothing that was new in terms of technical capabalities, but through extremely clever packaging made those techincal capabilities interesting to the masses. Just like Microsoft put a computer on every desktop, but didn't invent hardly a thing in that era. Regards, Walter