07.15.07
iPhone’s Place in the Gadget Hall-of-Fame
It is too early to be enshrining the iPhone, but in my own personal Hall-of-Fame, I have owned few transcendent devices. As I have gotten older, I have gotten more reluctant to live on Technologies bleeding edge. However, the iPhone pulled me out of that for the first time in quite a while.
For my lifetime, and in chronological order:
Atari 2600 (~1980)
Palm Pilot 1000 (~1996)
14 Hour TiVo (~1999)
8 Gig iPhone (2007)
Not really many ground-breaking entries for someone who has been a gadget freak from a young age. Certainly I have used and tried many times more gadgets and electronics, but these are unique in both impact on my life, society, and long-term usability, functionality. With the exception of the Atarti 2600 I was also there for all of them from the very beginning.
Only two weeks out and it is impossible for me not put the iPhone in the same category as those other devices for me, in my own personal Gadget Hall-of-Fame. So what devices are in your gadget Hall-of-Fame? Does the iPhone belong there?
