8. iPhone, Therefore iTweet

It was named Time’s Best Invention of 2007 and ranked highest by JD Power and Associates for Business Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction in 2008. Although the Blackberry might have revolutionized the mobile phone in what it could do, the iPhone changed everything in the way mobile phones were designed and interfaced with their users, interacting with their lives. I still couldn’t buy into the iPhone when it came on the scene in 2007; but when I became an owner of one in 2008, I understood, and now I can’t go anywhere without it.

Figure 8.1 The 800-pound gorilla of smartphones from Apple and AT&T, the iPhone.

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