Today, even if you have a PC on your desk you are still using an interface and mouse system which was first introduced to the public in 1984 by Steve Jobs of Apple Computer. Ok, I know that the idea was first developed by Xerox in a lab, but the first person to bring it to the masses was Apple.

So your computing experience today is a direct result of that first mac introduced in 1984. I remember standing in a computer shop in 1984 looking at the mac and thinking “This is the future”, and I was right.. You may remember that at the time it was ridiculed in the US as a 2500 dollar etch-a-sketch, which was exactly why it was so good..it was easy to use.

Today the first couple of million Americans will be getting their hands on the iPhone , and in 5 or 10 years from now we will all be using iPhones or at least we will be using phones that mimic the features found on the iPhone today.

Apple is expecting to ship 10 Million iPhones in 2008, barely 1% of the market, and they will surely do so.

Critics point to the past failure of the Newton, but that’s not fair because the world was not ready for the Newton and in fairness the newton was not ready for the world when it was released. But with innovation comes risk, and Apple is all about innovation.

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