It only took a few more years to reach similar impact in the cell phone industry. As expected, competition was lurking in the shadows as the iPhone made its jaw dropping entrance. Once again, an entire industry was shaken and changed beyond recognition. Advances like we've just witnessed with iPhone 4S will continue to keep pressure on the competition to create even better products.
A couple of years later . . . BOOM . . . iPad explodes onto the scene! Not designed to compete head-to-head with laptops, but a new technology paradigm with incredibly interactive, elegant and never before seen user-interfaces. The birth of iPad caused an industry to frantically release cheaper, sub-par products. Most falling way short with minimal life-expectancy while newer models have begun giving consumers options but have a tough road ahead as Apple owns 78% of the tablet market.
Like Thomas Edison and others before him, his lifes work has altered the human experience forever. How we communicate and interact with each other has made the world a much smaller place and has all but eliminated any time lapse in our ability to reach out to someone. Near or far. Steve was an absolute perfectionist who has made our lives simpler and more enjoyable and will forever be a constant reminder that one driven person can impact the world.
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I like the story of Steve responding to an Apple employee telling Steve they needed to commission focus groups to find out what customers were wanting. Driven and with a peerless vision for the future, Steve responded, "How do people know what they want until we give it to them?" . . . we didn't know we wanted an iPod, we would've asked for longer battery life in the cd players. We didn't know about iPhone or iPads. How could a focus group have led to that? . . . makes you wonder.
I like that story Jeremy!
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