A Walled Garden

Today I find myself considering the plight of Apple.

These days Apple is best known for what has become their flagship product—the iPhone. And for all its faults, it created, defined, and continues to push forward our idea of what a mobile device means.

It wasn't that long ago that people bought hundreds of small objects that poorly replicated what the iPhone does today. Alarm clocks, GPS navigators, watches, cameras. ATMs, remotes, radios, sticky notes, and who can forget: landline telephones. This is but a few examples of things that the iPhone has made essentially obsolete.

We now take it completely for granted how much this glowing little device does for us from day to day. It is certainly a very convenient little device, and in many ways we are much better for it, but

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