Redefine It
A week or two ago, I was reading an article on technologizer.com titled “The Speculative Prehistory of the iPhone.” (click here for the article)
What stuck out to me is how all of the mockups, speculating what the upcoming innovative iPhone looked like, were making the iPhone look like a merging of the traditional cell phones and an iPod. Well, when the real iPhone stood up, Apple did more than fuse two devices together, they completely redefined the phone! Apple jumped over all the cell phone makers/providers by probably 3 years. It’s amazing to see how all the cell phones coming out now are basically knock offs of the iPhone. Whether you like Apple or not, you gotta give them props for changing the game.
What I want to know is what will the next generation of phone look like? I bet Steve Jobs at Apple has a couple thoughts.
My takeaway: I don’t want to just improve, I want to redefine. It’s hard. I have to step out of my box. I have to throw assumptions away. I have to think at another level.
I am interested to see if Apple will blow us away with the “iTablet.” Will it redefine laptops for us?
Thanks…it was interesting to learn of the iPhone background. “Keep on Keeping on!”