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Blogger offers iPhone "Invention of the Year" perspective
In a year that gave us the prosthetic X-Finger for amputees, the pollution-reducing Diesel Exhaust Purification System, and hurricane-safety ImpactShield, is the iPhone really worthy of its Time magazine Invention of the Year honors? That's the question raised by iPhone Matter's Gregory Ng. Ng points out that although the iPhone is pretty and we love it to pieces, that other extremely worthy advances were overlooked by Time. His post raises a good question although I think of Time's "of the year" awards more as an entertainment/ lifestyle feature than as real news.
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Adam said 4:06PM on 11-02-2007
They put a touch screen on a phone... hardly invention of the year. Much more deserving inventions are being overlooked for some FoTM.
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Chris Murphy said 4:14PM on 11-02-2007
This super foam is my choice.
This stuff could save a lot of lives!
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=6322
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Fernando said 4:25PM on 11-02-2007
People that actually watch CNN/NBC/Fox etc etc... and read USA Today/NY Times etc etc... and real US News/Time and trully beleive everything that they report as being non-biased are trully mindless and clueless. So take it for a grain of salt. I own an iPhone and I could care less if Time says it's invention of the year. I mean come on now! Like the author said there are many other things worthy of an award like that but really does that mean anything at all? I highly doubt also that the choosing of that award was based on an unbiased selection commitee. Get real people!
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5cents said 5:24PM on 11-02-2007
Yeah appalling that something within reach of 10% of the world (if that) can be considered invention of the year. I vote Lifestraw!
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Jansperus said 5:42PM on 11-02-2007
That was a good blog. I was expecting something along the lines of: "Oh, the iPhone sucks! The zunePhone is far more awesomer and works on T-Mobile!" but compared to those other inventions, the iPhone, despite being the best phone available, is, well, vain.
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Jansperus said 5:42PM on 11-02-2007
That was a good blog. I was expecting something along the lines of: "Oh, the iPhone sucks! The zunePhone is far more awesomer and works on T-Mobile!" but compared to those other inventions, the iPhone, despite being the best phone available, is, well, vain.
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nick said 6:51PM on 11-02-2007
what did they invent?
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Kai Cherry said 8:06PM on 11-02-2007
COME ON PEOPLE...its "could not care less"...sheesh!
If you "could care less" that means you've not reached you limit...
Its almost as bad as "irregardless".
Ugh.
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Tom Twigg said 12:37AM on 11-03-2007
Just like Time's Man of the Year, this is not about being deserving ... it is about garnering the most press, which the iPhone has clearly done. If the blogger who started this knew more about what he was writing about he would have known that.
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basscadet said 6:11AM on 11-03-2007
It would be more precise if the award was for the "most covered tech gadget of the year" or for the "best marketing stunt of the year" and so on, and so on.
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Marc said 12:47PM on 11-03-2007
Exactly what kind of journalism did you expect from a crap rag like Time? Do you even think that their primitive writing staff has the ability to identify value outside the immediately tangible? If you're going to give Time ragazine the credibility to report the invention of the year, then you've caved into their small-minded plot to sell you glorified toilet paper. A best invention "award" from Time magazine is about as valuable as a "neutron physicist of the year award" from Cat Fancy. Enjoy your stupid press Apple; I'm sure you'll win more imaginary awards in the future.
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Jansperus said 4:37PM on 11-03-2007
I think my choice for a more accurate title for that award would be: "Consumer Device of the Year." Then I could agree with Time.
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Angella said 7:04PM on 11-03-2007
To Sergey Brin !
Sergey Brin is too busy with his power and his money to pay atention to the people who write to him and to the site made for him - mysergeybrin.com.
That is why i challenge you, Sergey Brin, to write me even one word, to prove the world you exist as a human!
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