Silicon Valley’s search for the next big tech platform
The smartphone era is fading. What next?
FIFTEEN YEARS ago Steve Jobs announced three new products: a music player, a mobile phone and an internet communicator. As Apple’s then-boss gave his presentation, his audience slowly realised that the three products were in fact a single gadget: the iPhone. Cue applause, cue Apple’s renaissance, and cue a new era in technology as the smartphone overtook the desktop PC as the centre of personal computing.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “After the smartphone”
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