The iPhone * was the device to end all pub arguments. Important Things (i.e. pointless trivia) were suddenly all available in your pocket, whenever you wanted

The iPhone * was the device to end all pub arguments. Important Things (i.e. pointless trivia) were suddenly all available in your pocket, whenever you wanted Incidentally, this has also led to much much harder pub quiz questions - previously "who won the world cup in 1956" or whatever became University Challenge-style "Which team, whose mascot's species rhymes with the month of their founding, became embroiled in scandal in 1967 when their manager at the time was caught with a prostitute on Dartmoor..." -- i.e. questions designed to be ungoogleable (a verb people would never have predicted in 1988.) * now all smartphones, I guess.