SPONSOR: Get 2 months of unlimited access to thousands of SkillShare classes for free! Just go to When Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in 2007, the first big leap forward, it was made possible by the confluence of several rapidly emerging technologies — capacitive multitouch, ubiquitous mobile data networks, and miniaturized computing.
All of these technologies existed prior to the iPhone but they’d never been brought together before in anything as polished or approachable as the iPhone.
Evolution followed revolution, and over the course of the last decade we got high density displays, Siri, LTE and Lightning, custom 64-bit silicon and Touch ID, extensibility and continuity, Apple Watch and AirPods, computational photography and audio, inductive charging and shortcuts.
When Tim Cook announced the iPhone X in 2017, the second big leap forward, it packaged together new technologies like bendable OLED displays, depth and Face ID-sensing cameras, and neural engine blocks, but it also jettisoned the fundamental interactive element of the previous decade, the Home button, and replaced it with a new, more direct, gesture navigation system.
Extreme dynamic range and spatial audio and WiFi 6 and ultra-wide-band followed, but looking back is never as exhilarating as looking forward. And that’s what I really want to talk about today. Not what what was, but what will be. Not this year but for the next 10 years to come.
Sure, we have iPhone 12 coming up, and 5G, but beyond that, we have an even greater confluence of technologies, rapidly emerging, that when taken together that could make for an even bigger third leap forward. With iPhone XX.
No… seriously.
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