The first iPhone came out five years ago today. That's a pretty long time, it turns out. 1. Apple is the most valuable company in the world
2. Which made a lot of rich people much richer
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3. AT&T has so many customers that its network doesn't work
4. But T-Mobile is nearly bankrupt
5. The Blackberry is dead
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6. And Nokia is in huge trouble. When's the last time you saw one of these?
7. These events are the biggest news of the day
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9. Because he basically made a huge iPod touch and it still turned out great
11. Touchscreens are everywhere
12. And everybody understands what this stuff means
14. And every company has an app
15. Other phones got app stores too
16. Just the word "app." How often did people say that before 2008?
17. We've stopped carrying separate media players
18. And nobody needs these things
19. You can't see the band when you go to a concert (but you can watch them on YouTube later)
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20. The company that makes these came into existence AND got shut down
21. Nobody likes Flash anymore (and it's dying)
22. We've seen a bunch of famous peoples' junk
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23. We don't look where we're walking
24. And text messages are organized like emails, instead of in one big list
25. But we write them in inscrutable symbols, so it doesn't really matter
27. Which means these are the only humans that can still spell
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28. We treat our phones like babies, because they're ridiculously delicate and require constant attention + feeding
30. But we never make phone calls, because why would we do that?
31. We're starting to pay attention to where our gadgets come from
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32. And even though we don't have one of these anymore...
33. We never get lost
35. And we don't argue for hours about dumb trivia anymore
36. But we can never escape Twitter and Facebook and it's great but its also it's ruining all of our lives (HELP)
40. But seriously, everyone is a gamer now, and simple casual games have gotten awesome
41. And it's much easier to keep kids occupied (and all our kids' brains have been permanently rewired)
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42. People pay for software again (just, not very much)
44. Every fight gets posted on the internet
45. All news is instant, no matter where we are
46. And we always know what song is playing in the bar
49. We do this a lot more
50. All our photos look old, and we instantly send them to EVERYBODY
51. We use Spotify and Pandora instead of listening to the radio
52. The pooping experience has been REVOLUTIONIZED
