iPhone XX — Imaging the next 10 years of AppleWhen Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in 2007, the first big leap forward, it was made possible by the confluence of several rapidly emerging technologies — capacitive multitouch, ubiquitous mobile data networks, and miniaturized computing.
All of these technologies existed prior to the iPhone but they'd never been brought together before in anything as polished or approachable as the iPhone.
Evolution followed revolution, and over the course of the last decade, we got high-density displays, Siri, LTE and Lightning, custom 64-bit silicon and Touch ID, extensibility and continuity, Apple Watch and AirPods, computational photography and audio, inductive charging and shortcuts.
When Tim Cook announced the iPhone X in 2017, the second big leap forward, it packaged together new technologies like bendable OLED displays, depth and Face ID-sensing cameras, and neural engine blocks, but it also jettisoned the fundamental interactive element of the previous decade, the Home butt...
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iPhone XX — Imaging the next 10 years of Apple
