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Even Steve Careers didn't know very well what he had on his hands when he announced the initial iPhone as a blend of a mere "three groundbreaking products": an ipod device, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple presented the App Store and opened it up to outdoors designers, however, the iPhone became with the capacity of serving a speedily growing volume of functions - now more than 350,000 and keeping track of. But the iPhone has implications very good beyond the telephone or tool market. Actually, it's opening the way to what Brian X. Chen telephone calls the "always-on" future, where we are all constantly linked to a worldwide Internet via flexible, incredibly capable devices that allow us to do anything, anytime, from everywhere. This has far-reaching implications - both positive and negative - throughout every area of your lives, opening the entranceway for outstanding personal and societal improvements while potentially sacrificing both privateness and creative liberty in the process. Always On is the first publication to look at the unusual and expansive need for Apple's incredibly powerful vertical business design, and the near future it portends.
