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ComputerWorld crowns iPhone as 2nd most innovative product of 2007
ComputerWorld has created another end of the year list: the 25 most innovative products of 2007. An Apple product isn't on the top of the list, that place goes to Google Gears, but the iPhone does clock in at the number 2 spot which isn't too shabby. The biggest innovation, according to CW, is the touch screen display. I'm going to disagree with that, because I've used devices before the iPhone that had touch screens and they weren't as much fun, or as easy to use, as the iPhone. The real innovation of the iPhone is that the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. The software and hardware work together to make using this device a pleasure. Here's hoping that in a few years other handset makers will figure out what Apple has done with the iPhone and emulate it, of course by then Apple will be on the 3 or 4th revision of the iPhone. The mind boggles as to what that future iPhone will do.Oh, and ComputerWorld, how about innovating a little bit with your website and not splitting up a relatively short article into 5 separate webpages? That'd be awesome.
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eric f. said 7:15PM on 12-28-2007
"Oh, and ComputerWorld, how about innovating a little bit with your website and not splitting up a relatively short article into 5 separate webpages? "
I assume that they get paid each time an AD loads, not just when it is clicked on. You know how popular these "end of the year" lists are, so that = a lot of ADs loading.
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LD said 7:34PM on 12-28-2007
Google Gears #1? Google must pay them Adwords advertising.
While Gears is pretty cool it's FAR from the impact and technology of the iPhone. The iPhone shook up the whole mobile industry in the same way the iPod did the mp3 industry and iTunes the music industry.
Gears is a neat toy and that's it. It's barely in use, even by Google. It's hardly even known outside of the ultra geek world.
What a stupid choice. These writers are all shills.
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basscadet said 3:52AM on 12-29-2007
I'd nominate iPhone as the tech gadget that made the most buzz in 2007. Its specs and price are nothing too revolutionary, just well packaged and marketed flashy gizmos. Best marketing stunt of 2007? You bet. They sold old tech at a rather costly price, what else do you want? Anyway, with other cellphone manufacturing companies selling gazillions of handsets and dozens of models every year iPhone is already lost in the news and no one cares or writes about it anymore. A v.2 will come out (maybe next summer?) but I expect a less exciting welcome.
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geochick said 7:34PM on 12-29-2007
Your statements here suggests to me that that you don't own and iPhone. Then again perhaps you got burned as I did on my first one.
Galley said 9:49AM on 12-29-2007
And the average person is probably thinking: "WTF is Google gears?".
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Ralph said 9:17PM on 12-30-2007
That's exactly what I thought when I read this.
Wordman said 7:43PM on 12-31-2007
Oh, and ComputerWorld, how about innovating a little bit with your website and not splitting up a relatively short article into 5 separate webpages?
...says the site that does things like make links of product names (e.g. recent Saft article) lead to search results on your own site instead of the actual frigging product site.
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