Category: Columns

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Steve Jobs’ Democratization Of The Smartphone Changed The World

Can it be only ten years since Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPhone and changed everything? Jobs and Apple didn’t invent the smartphone. IBM designed a primitive one called SIMON in 1992, and Research In Motion Limited (now BlackBerry Limited) began popularizing its secure smartphone messaging network with enterprise, government, and institutional users in 1999. However, the iPhone, with its touchscreen graphical user […]