{"id":2711,"date":"2017-01-03T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T09:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:39:29","slug":"the-iphone-at-10-how-the-smartphone-became-so-smart-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/the-iphone-at-10-how-the-smartphone-became-so-smart-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone at 10: How the smartphone became so smart – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tim Harford tells the surprising story of how the iPhone became a truly revolutionary technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On 9 January 2007, one of the most influential entrepreneurs on the planet announced something new – a product that was to become the most profitable in history.<\/p>\n

It was, of course, the iPhone. There are many ways in which the iPhone has defined the modern economy.<\/p>\n

There is the sheer profitability of the thing, of course: there are only two or three companies in the world that make as much money as Apple does from the iPhone alone.<\/p>\n

There is the fact that it created a new product category: the smartphone. The iPhone and its imitators represent a product that did not exist 10 years ago but now is an object of desire for most of humanity. There’s the way the iPhone transformed other markets – software, music, and advertising.<\/p>\n

But those are just the obvious facts about the iPhone. And when you delve more deeply, the tale is a surprising one. We give credit to Steve Jobs and other leading figures in Apple – his early partner Steve Wozniak, his successor Tim Cook, his visionary designer Sir Jony Ive – but some of the most important actors in this story have been forgotten.<\/p>\n

Source: The iPhone at 10: How the smartphone became so smart – BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Harford tells the surprising story of how the iPhone became a truly revolutionary technology. On 9 January 2007, one of the most influential entrepreneurs on the planet announced something new – a product that was to become the most profitable in history. It was, of course, the iPhone. There are many ways in which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}