10th
iPhone vs World
A colleague just asked me if I think Apple will dominate the next generation of computing.
I said they’re certainly going to sell A LOT of iPhones in the next few years. I’m not sure why anyone would buy anything else at this point, unless you really can’t stand the smell of AT&T or you have a vested interest in some other platform.
I think this is less about Apple than it is about a long-awaited paradigm shift in personal computing, which is the emergence of cheap, ultra-portable, always-connected devices. The Internet is free of the desktop and laptop now, and it’s free in full color and with a 3-axis accelerometer. Whether Apple makes it, or ASUS, or Google doesn’t really matter in the long run.
I think we’ll look back on this in 10 years and boggle that more people didn’t see it coming.