It’s hard to overstate the gamble Steve Jobs and Apple in creating the iPhone back in January 2007. Not only was he introducing a new kind of phone — something Apple had never made before — he was doing so with a prototype that barely worked, in an industry notoriously controlled by the mobile service providers.
Fred Vogelstein's book “Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution” will be published in November 2013 and promises to be an excellent read.
Friday, October 4, 2013
The Big iPhone Gamble
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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