Ten years of Apple iPhone: Put down your iPhone, and appreciate its genius
Ten years after the introduction of Apple's iPhone, and the broader category of smartphones, it’s worth stepping back to see what we have learned. As with most major technological innovations, it’s brought a number of collateral surprises about the rest of our world. Apple iPhone 10th anniversary: Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and CEO who passed away in 2011, holds the new iPhone in San Francisco, California on January 9, 2007. Apple iPhone went on sale on June 29, 2007. (Source: Reuters) By Tyler Cowen/Bloomberg Ten years after the introduction of Apple Inc’s iPhone, and the broader category of smartphones, it’s worth stepping back to see what we have learned. As with most major technological innovations, it’s brought a number of collateral surprises about the rest of our world. First, we’ve learned that, even in this age of bits and bytes, materials innovation still matters. The iPhone is behind the scenes a triumph of mining science, with a wide variety ...