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2010s was the iPhone decade - pRICE cUBE - 01-01-2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/iphone-decade-how-apple-s-phone-created-destroyed-industries-changed-n1102631
I’m not sure when my iPhone became essential to my life, but I’m not alone. In fact, it’s possible to look at the last 10 years as the iPhone decade — when smartphones went mainstream, created billion-dollar corporations, rearranged existing industries and changed the world.
In fact, you might be reading this on an iPhone right now.
The iPhone was first released in 2007, but at the dawn of the decade it was still a relatively niche product, confined to one wireless carrier and targeted at the early technology adopter. Now it’s a much bigger deal — in the first calendar quarter of 2010, Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones. In the first quarter of 2018, Apple sold 47 million iPhones.
Apple sold at least 1.4 billion iPhones during the decade, according to its official sales figures, and probably closer to 1.6 billion after this year’s estimates are added. Apple says over 900 million iPhones are in active use.
Replace everything in your pocket
The iPhone became intertwined in our lives because it replaced so many other devices.
Instead of a personal communicator with your calendar and notes, I use my iPhone. I don’t have an alarm clock anymore. It replaced in-car GPS devices. MP3 players. Flashlights!
“Fifteen years ago, we used the wireless phone to make a call. Today, we use it for everything else. It’s the remote control for our lives,” wireless analyst Jeff Kagan said.
Perhaps the best example of the iPhone’s transformational power is what it did to the camera. Some 109 million pocket cameras were sold in 2010, according to data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association. But in 2018, the last year for which full data is available, only 9 million cameras with built-in lenses were sold.
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - Rolando - 01-01-2020
How can you forget that the phone is now the primary camera and video camera for much of the world?
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - jdc - 01-01-2020
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - sekker - 01-01-2020
Amazing device has truly changed the world - and not all for the better.
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - D-Rod - 01-01-2020
There is still a year to go in this decade since we started with year 1.
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - Sam3 - 01-01-2020
Dennis R wrote:
There is still a year to go in this decade since we started with year 1.
Depends on whether one counts decades ordinally or cardinally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
In the context of the OP's headline, "the 2010's" would make 2020 the beginning of a new decade.
Re: 2010s was the iPhone decade - Rolando - 01-01-2020
Any 10 year period is a "decade"
But I stand with Dennis!