The
iPhone, some of you like it and some of you hate it. You can argue that there
are phones superior to the iPhone, but you can’t argue on what it did on the
smartphone industry. So, let’s take a look back at the features staring at the
very first.
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The Touchscreen
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Even as
an avid Apple fan, I will admit that Apple did not invent the touchscreen.
However, it did pioneer and improve the touchscreen. If the original iPhone did
not use a touchscreen, expect the age of plastic keyboards on handheld devices
to be a little bit longer.
The User Interface
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The
user interface the original iPhone brought was, at the time, mind-blowing. The
swipes, zooms and other gestures which we now take for granted, were
innovations back in 2007.
The App Industry
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The
iPhone 3G was not the only thing introduced in 2008, the App Store was that
other major thing. I mean who hasn’t heard “There’s an app for that.” Just
imagine a world without apps, what a wasteland the Earth would be.
The Smartphone Camera
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Once
again, the camera in the smartphone had existed long before the iPhone was even
rumored. But, it set the standard on how good a smartphone camera should be.
The Headphone Jack
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Hear me
out for a second, just hear me out. Although it may be too early to say, the
last time Apple abandoned an interface, every other company followed. That
interface was the CD drive. So, I can predict that the headphone jack will have
the same fate.
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