People and Technology
10 years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the world to a new thing — the iPhone. Even if you are familiar with the event, have seen the video, or were there, it may not occur to you how weak the reception was in that room, that day.
With remarkable style, Steve Jobs setup the context masterfully, and then said,
… we’re introducing three revolutionary products….
(Polite clapping and a couple whoops)
I’m listening to the Google IO Keynote this morning, not really following closely, but I have it running in the background and occasionally pick up some interesting detail.
My impression so far is that it’s an wild array of capabilities, especially around improvements in APIs for developers to tie in to Maps, Google+ and other services. This is going to be fun to check out in detail.
https://developers.google.com/events/io/