Take a look at the above graph from Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker. It shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the iPhone/iPod touch are the fastest-growing platform in consumer electronics history. It/the out pace the Nintendo Wii by a good margin and blow away the iPod and Blackberry.
That’s the good news.
What’s the bad? Nothing can maintain this pace forever and in our short-sited society at the first sign of a slowdown (JUST a slowdown mind you not even a downturn) the blogosphere will be crying “The sky is falling the sky is falling”.
Then again, in light of this amazing visual it is pretty clear that won’t be happening tomorrow or the day after… or any time soon.
Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”)
Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen
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