Apple’s innovations have set off an entire rethinking of how humans interact with machines. Ponder the individual impacts of the book, the newspaper, the telephone, the radio, the tape recorder, the camera, the video camera, the compass, the television, the VCR and the DVD, the personal computer, the cellphone, the video game and the iPod. The smartphone is all those things, and it fits in your pocket.

Fred Vogelstein: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone

Photo album, post office, bookstore, diary, pocket watch, stopwatch, alarm clock, memorandum book, sketchbook, calendar, datebook, encyclopedia, music store, dictionary, atlas, telegraph…