The iPhone Effect: How Apple’s phone changed everything

Great post by Ryan Kim over at GigaOM: The iPhone Effect: How Apple’s phone changed everything

“Apple’s stock price at the close of June 29, 2007, the day of the iPhone launch: $122.04 a share. Tuesday: $335.26 with a market cap of $310 billion.”

He lists so many ways that Apple really has changed the landscape of not only the cell phone production industry, but also the carrier industry, software, sales of apps, music, movies, etc. Really incredible.

How important is the iPhone to me personally? I never thought I’d think this, but I believe that if given the choice to only own one piece of tech, it would be my iPhone. Yep. Easily. Hands down. I’d give up my precious iMac and MacBook Air.

It’s really become indispensable to me. It’s my primary communication device (I gave up having a landline long ago), I love it for its music capabilities and I can settle almost any argument in the few minutes it takes me to run a Google search or browse the web ;-)