It’s a music. It’s a phone. It’s an
iPhone.
A 21st century piece of
technology that I really admire is my iPhone. Not only is it a phone, it is way
to access different platforms of social media, a camera, an mp3 player, a
calculator, and so on. This little device that can do so much, and fit in the
back pocket of my jeans. I believe the iPhone was created to have a little
computer that could fit in the palm of your hand.
Now a pretty big influence, that is still relevant today, are computers. They
first started off as huge, immobile pieces of technology. There was no moving
that around as freely as you wanted. As time went on though, computers became
smaller, lighter, and thinner. Soon the laptop came out people who needed to
work on the go. In the beginning the laptops were still pretty bulky and heavy
to carry around. Now we have laptops as light as notebooks. They are so much
easier carrying around to classes or traveling on airplanes. However, it’s hard
to find WIFI everywhere you go, especially free WIFI. Also, it’s quite
inconvenient to just pull out a laptop out when you’re bored on the bus, or just
trying to get out of an awkward situation. Thus, the smart phones became more
computer like.
Another influence would be cameras. Even though the Iphone has a good camera,
it doesn’t compare to more high quality cameras that professional photographers
use, but the convenience of having a camera at your fingertips is pretty
convenient. Some people can even make some pictures look pretty close to
professional. The phone can even provide applications that help the user
edit photos and videos. This makes it easier to be a photographer on the go.
This
might be a stretch, but I also believe a calculator helped influence the iPhone.
Hear me out, the really good calculators can do more than just basic
arithmetic. Just like the iPhone is so much more than just a device someone
would use to make a phone call on or send a text message. Smart calculators can
formulate graphs and figure out equations. iPhone can send out emails to
looking up recipes for a specific dish to posting the picture of the dish on
Instagram.
An
obvious thing that inspired the iPhone was the mp3 player. Of course, there was
more than one device to help play music, such as the CD player, record player,
Walkman, cassette player, and then the iPod. These devices allowed people to
listen to music wherever they were at any time. However, most of the devices
required people to carry around their albums in the form of CD’s or cassette
tapes. In later development, music became digitized and were made able to be
downloaded. This is where the iPod came in and was able to store hundreds of
songs on to one small, mobile device. What could improve such useful
technology? Add a phone to it. Thus, came the beautiful creation of the iPhone.
Where not only can someone listen to music anywhere their heart desires, they
can even buy and download music anywhere they get WIFI or a phone signal. People can even download applications like
Spotify and Pandora where they have even more access to music. Even if people
still buy physical CD’s, they can download the music and put it on the iPhone. This
piece of technology has greatly opened up the music world for people.
The
iPhone is one of the most popular things to come to mind when thinking of a
piece of technology, but with all that it can do I can see why. It helps people
in so many ways, and is light, mobile, and fits in the palm of your hand. It
continues to grow and improve as time progresses, so let’s see what more it can
do.
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