Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--And Locked Us in

by Brian X. Chen

Book Overview

Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 200,000 and counting. But the iPhone has implications far beyond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306819600
• ISBN13: 9780306819605
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"