Backchannel:
Apple is notorious for not looking back. When an anniversary of a big product approaches, the company routinely bounces requests to reminisce. (“I don’t think about that,” was Jobs’s response to me, on the 25th anniversary of Macintosh in 2008). In this case, Apple made an exception: last week I sat down with its senior vp of world wide marketing, Phil Schiller, who joined the company’s leadership team in April 1997, coincident with Steve Jobs’s return. Schiller had been deeply involved in the iPhone’s development and launch.
There are a lot of articles you can read today about the launch of the iPhone ten years ago but very few of them will be with one of the principals involved.
I think you mean “one of the principals involved”
http://blog.dictionary.com/principal-vs-principle/
And they won’t be written by the guy who should’ve done Jobs’ biography.
The idea that the iPhone is a platform that will last 50 yeas is not really based on reality.
I did. Thanks. Corrected.
It’s just marketing speak. Don’t take it seriously.
Yeah, no one uses Unix anymore, either… 😉
lol, a bit tongue in cheek, though I feel I beat a dead horse on the withering Mac future … could I die on the vine in 10 or 15 years?
FWIW — Techradar…
http://www.techradar.com/news/mac-misery-continues-as-apples-computers-slump-to-half-decade-low?utm_content=buffer928b5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer-maclifefb
actually it could be a future reality, though who knows – they seem to have forgotten traditional computers. Yes, some time “tablets” and phones could replace “computers” for the 90% + people out there… maybe, in 15 or 20 years. Maybe Siri will be useful by that point…