<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I think computer + phone was inevitable (recall there were GSM phone dongles floating about). I think what made the iPhone amazing (beyond its design focus, which is not to be underestimated either) was to combine:</div><div><br></div><div>* A screen of a size usable for many apps</div><div>* GPS</div><div>* camera</div><div>* Voice </div><div><br></div><div>into an integrated appliance (and by integrated, I mean all four interacted in various permutations).</div><div><br></div><div>Non-obvious combo but amazing once you started using it.<br><br>Craig</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 2, 2018, at 13:46, John Day <<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" target="_blank">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-7194751811704009620Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Agreed. The computer as phone was inevitable. It was significant that Jobs’ sense of design and what it should be kicked it off. I hate to think what the first ones could’ve been. ;-)<div><br></div><div>John<br><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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