Apple's first iPhone was released 15 years ago today. All that time later, here's how smartphones have changed our lives forever.
Some pieces of technology are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine what things were like before they came along. Fifteen years ago today, the first modern smartphone – Apple’s first-gen iPhone – went on sale in the United States.
2. It changed how we pay for things In some senses, the wallet is just another on the long list of items above that the smartphone has absorbed during its reign. But it’s probably the most important one. Services like Apple Pay and Samsung Wallet have rapidly become integral to our lives. When you manage to change established behavior in such a fundamental way, that’s pretty impressive. And incredibly lucrative for the companies who control these ecosystems.
Heck, this geolocation information has even been used in murder trials to reveal where the plaintiff was at any given moment. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of low-cost phones with impressive specs. Since cellular connectivity is a more practical solution than hardwired phones and data lines in developing parts of the world, smartphones have made their influence felt very, very quickly.
9. Changing photography forever There are very, very few occasions these days when you wish that you had a camera with you, but do not. That’s because almost all of us carry around impressively adept, almost impossibly slimline digital cameras in our pockets. And, boy, do we love to use them! The smartphone begat social media platforms from Instagram to TikTok to Tinder, all of which felt tailor-made for the smartphone era. Other social media platforms quickly learned they had to pivot to mobile-first in order to thrive. There would still be social media if the smartphone hadn’t come along. However, it most certainly wouldn’t be as ubiquitous.
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