„Everything is iPhone now“

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Geht’s noch Smartphone-zentrischer?

Even the AI boom, overhyped as it is, operates in the context of the smartphone — in the context of the iPhone. OpenAI’s Sam Altman may believe that he can displace the smartphone with new AI-native hardware, but he turned to Jony Ive to do it, because no one else has the credibility to even try. It’s not clear if Altman and Ive can pull the same trick and turn limitations into features, because the experience of modern AI systems stubbornly denies any limitations at all, but they’re going to try.

Nilay Patel | The Verge

Immer wenn die Frage aufkommt: „Was löst das Smartphone ab?“, denke ich an das Zitat von Phil Schiller aus dem Jahr 2017 – ein gutes halbes Jahr vor dem iPhone X.

Schiller hopes that in 50 years people will look back at this point and say, “Wow, they didn’t realize how much was to come — in fact, others missed it because they were busy running around looking for other things. Everyone has their opinions at this point, but it could be that we’re only in the first minutes of the first quarter of the game,” he says. “I believe this product is so great that it has many years of innovation ahead.”

Steven Levy | „Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years“

Der Supercomputer in meiner Hosentasche ist heute das iPhone Air, und Greg Joswiak legt nochmal drauf.

Wait—Apple thinks that people will be using the iPhone 50 years from now?

“It’s hard to imagine not,” says Joswiak. “That’s where everybody else struggles. They don’t have an iPhone, and so they’re scrambling for what to do. A lot of what they talk about ends up being accessories for an iPhone. We’re not going to get into future road maps, but I will tell you, iPhones are not going anywhere.”

Steven Levy | „Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100“

Rückblickend haben wir den Begriff „PC“ zu früh vergeben: Der echte „Personal Computer“ ist das Smartphone.