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Well, that site is a notorious pro apple source so I don't see how they could have come to a diff pov on the smartphone disruption success story that is the iph
by novalis 14y ago
Well, that site is a notorious pro apple source so I don't see how they could have come to a diff pov on the smartphone disruption success story that is the iphone. The narrative is at the point of the post-pc world now, let us see how the masses react to these fantastic news.
- olalonde 14y agoI totally agree that the iPhone disrupted the cell phone industry. Where I disagree is that it disrupted the PC industry as well. It might have influenced the industry to some degree but it definitely didn't "disrupt" it.
- alttab 14y agoI'd say it disrupted the computing industry by converging the cell phone and pc industry.
- samspot 14y agoI just started reading The Master Switch over the weekend, and I think what the writer here is talking about is the potential to completely destroy the current PC industry, much in the way that the telephone destroyed telegrams. Whether it has or not won't be obvious until much later. I'm not hoping it has happened, nor do I necessarily believe it has. But I think 30 years from now we might be reading about how this was the defining moment in the death of PCs. This may be completely obvious to everyone here already, but it was a whole new line of thinking for me after reading a bit of that book.