1. Planet iPhone.
I keep telling people that for phones, 2008 was the equivalent of 1982 for PCs–the year things really started to get interesting. The most interesting phone was unquestionably the iPhone, and the single thing that made it so interesting was its rapid transformation from a closed platform into one with thousands of third-party applications. The year wasn’t all beer and skittles for the iPhone and people who owned it–the first morning of sales was a disaster and the iPhone 3G shipped in a form that was rife with glitches. And Apple admitted mucking up the Mobile Me launch and pissed off developers and consumers with capricious, mysterious policies at its App Store. Perfect this phone ain’t. Yet it remains the most important and impressive new hardware-and-software platform since…well, the Mac.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
December 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Nice work – although I almost agree with Relyt… a bit too much Appletalk for us old school Microsoft geeks who are too stuck in our way to move to Apple. I wonder what the stories of 2009 will be – my guess is that electronic medical records and personal health records will be up there!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice work
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Relyt Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i work in the cellphone industry so with my perspective, its pretty near impossible to overemphasize the impact the i-phone has had.