Why the iPhone will change every device in your pocket
The revolution is coming.
The iPhone will be out in a few hours and it will change every device on earth.
Why am I saying so? Let's give a look at this new Apple product.
The biggest innovation that the iPhone brings is certainly the revolutionary multi-touch interface; this innovative technology makes touch-screens much more natural to use. For example: if you want to resize an image you can simply "pinch" an area of the screen or, if you want to type a capitalized "m", you simply press SHIFT+m. It might sound obvious, but this has never been possible with "normal" touch screens!
This amazing invention is already drawing the way for the future: for instance Microsoft has demoed Surface, a multitouch table to be used in restaurants, pubs,... (oh yeah, copying again).
I am quite sure that multitouch will be the favourite input method for future devices.
Another great feature of the iPhone is the screen: no keyboard, no strange buttons,... just the screen which shows a pertinent number of buttons; for example the keyboard appears only when you need to type a text and doesn't show buttons that you are not going to use (for example the space bar when typing URLs).
This is going to be the standard for future handlend devices. Think of smartphones, mobile phones, MP3 players: their screens are getting bigger and buttons are becoming fewer.
It is already happening.
But the feature that truly makes the iPhone a powerful device is the software: OS X.
Yeah: not OS X mobile but OS X itself!!
This is giving the iPhone a huge potential; virtually anything is possible on OS X; so the iPhone is going to be the only device which can bring personal computer's power into such a small device.
And the integration between applications is just amazing (watch this if you don't believe me!).
The iPhone might not be perfect on its first release but it is clearly drawing a path: every device (even the iPod) will change to become more similar to the iPhone.
You're right, the right word for it is revolution.
