The iPhone has well exceeded the hype. Considering what it enables with its browser and the possibility for open development, it very well could change the world.
A device with this ease of use and mobility, coupled with a social networking platform could create true mobile social networking. Imagine if google maps could display other iphone users with similar interests in that are logged on in your area. What if you could find out that the person sitting on the other end of the starbucks likes the same 1980s cliche cinema that you do.
Not only does this have the opportunity to make us more social, clever creatures – it provides a gateway to technology experiences that introduce non-core users to the true ideas behind social technologies. If Time magazine says “you” are the person of 2006, the iPhone will allow you to express why in 2007 and beyond. I am 100% drunk on this Steve Jobs-spiked cool aid.
BTW: Check out this picture I took downtown today.
I know that phone is so sweet. “You had me at scrolling”.
So what is going on in that downtown pic?