[ih] Review: Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley"

[Clem Cole]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Craig Partridge <craig at tereschau.net> wrote:

> 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:
>
> * A screen of a size usable for many apps
> * GPS
> * camera
> * Voice
>
> into an integrated appliance (and by integrated, I mean all four
> interacted in various permutations).
>
> Non-obvious combo but amazing once you started using it.
>
​And at a price that in the end, was not obscene.   At the time, many
thought $~1K for a phone was going to be too much, but it is all about
creating 'value' and as you said, a non-obvious combo that once became
useful, became valued.
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