Apple's iPhone
The cellphone used to come in two flavours - a simple phone with maybe a cheap camera or a “smartphone” that gave you access to your email. The problem with the later was there was little that was “smart” about these devices. They had challenges linking up with your computer to sync to your address book; the email worked fine, but the small keyboards and typing with your thumbs made for some hilarious messages; the menu’s where endlessly deep and useless features abounded. When was the last time you used your cellphone as a calculator? I hindsight it is clear that this was a technology ripe for revolution and, as we have seen in American, that revolution came in the form of Apple’s iPhone. Recently analysts have revised their sales projections up from 14 million phones sold worldwide in 2008 to over 14 million, while 2009 is expected to be even better, with 24 million iPhones sold. Why? What is it about this phone that makes it the phenomena that it is? Every one has a theory, but the...