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Today, the iPhone IS the Personal Computer. If that's not massive, category-changing, ecosystem-disrupting, change, then I don't know what is - especially since
by alexqgb 13y ago
Today, the iPhone IS the Personal Computer. If that's not massive, category-changing, ecosystem-disrupting, change, then I don't know what is - especially since it reverberates across once-unrelated markets like GPS, photography, cartography, and...well, pretty much anything for which there's now an app.
Jesus, even the word "app" is new.
- nitrogen 13y agoThe word "app" (though more frequently pluralized) dates at least to the mid 1990s. How new do you mean?
- alexqgb 13y agoI was thinking 2009, which is when "app" - as a word with a widely yet precisely understood meaning - began taking off in the common vernacular. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app Using language as proxy, this looks like the point when the smartphones began turning into the most personal of personal computers in a really big way.