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thomassmith65last Monday at 12:08 AM1 replyview on HN

When I watched the 2007 Apple keynote where Jobs announced the iPhone, it completely blew me away.

These days the smartphone doesn't fill me with awe anymore the same way many earlier and even subsequent inventions still do.

It's possibly because I could carry on quite easily without a smartphone. The greater loss would be for me to live without a mobile phone (of any variety), a computer, or a portable music player.


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erulast Monday at 5:35 AM

> When I watched the 2007 Apple keynote where Jobs announced the iPhone, it completely blew me away.

Wasn't the first iPhone basically just an iPod with a sim card?

I mean smart phones are a great achievement, but they were an incremental improvement, nothing to be blown away by?

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