I saw the future when Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone in January 2007.Everything's obvious in hindsight, but Apple's radically different take on the smartphone represented a paradigm shift in how consumers would harness technology.As Jobs walked me through using the iPhone, it was easy to see that the trail Apple was blazing would serve as inspiration for the pocket computers people would inevitably carry with them in the years ahead. Things we take for granted were huge: People applauded when they saw how you could use your finger on the screen to scroll through text and images. ...



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