21st century tech.

 One of the biggest twenty first century technologies is the iPhone. The iPhone has evolved from many different forms, beginning with the first iPhone which was released in 2007. As crazy as it sounds, the first iPhone did not have an App Store. A year later in 2008, the iPhone 3G which wasn’t much different from the original iPhone but it did have an App Store was released. In 2010, the iPhone 4 came out which was the first iPhone to ever have a front facing camera. When the iPhone 4S came out in 2011, people were dying to have it because of this little gadget we call Siri. The iPhone 5’s screen was the first ever to be enlarged from the original model in 2012. iPhone 5S introduced Touch ID, dual flash, and slow-motion video in 2013 while the iPhone 5C was meant to be slightly more affordable and had a plastic shell. It was available in fun, bright colors for the first time ever. In 2014, they started the idea of the regular and Plus version, starting with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6Plus. They soon graduated to the 7 and 7Plus, 8 and 8Plus. In recent years, we’ve seen X, XS, XS MAX and XR come out with slight differences each time. This is when we see facial recognition come alive. In 2019, the iPhone 11 came out and this year, as of 2020, the iPhone 12 was released. Each iPhone had an influence on the one that came after it but the evolution of the iPhone was really what was expected, nothing seriously shocking about the smart phone. A commonality we keep seeing with the iPhone is the length. If the phone keeps getting significantly longer each year, we might as well try to stuff an iPad in our pocket, it’s just getting all too inconvenient. The point of the iPhone started out as convenience but it has really only been getting more impractical and more addictive, which is a huge problem. If iPhones have influenced there own technology so much that they can keep creating version after version for over a decade adding new technologies each time, future technologies will definitely be influenced as well.