![]() I had been carrying a video game console on my person at the time already: A Nintendo DS, which often sat in my jeans pocket uncomfortably next to my Motorola flip phone and a set of house keys. Yet it was always easy to imagine the iPhone as a platform for video games. ![]() We all realized how badly we needed one only when a lot of new needs were invented for us to have. ![]() ![]() Nobody had really imagined the extent of what the iPhone might provide, in the realm of the essential and trivial. Being able to identify the name of a song heard in passing seemed like such a simple, appealing idea that it instantly justified smartphone applications, which until then, still felt like unnecessarily complex means to check email or surf the web on the go. I think the possibilities it offered were best represented, for most people, by the mere explanation of the Shazam app. When Apple launched the iOS App Store in the summer of 2008, it radically changed our relationship to our mobile devices and, in many ways, the world itself around us. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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