{"id":1,"date":"2021-09-10T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-09-10T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:22:53","slug":"what-10-years-of-apple-did-to-its-main-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/what-10-years-of-apple-did-to-its-main-product.htm","title":{"rendered":"What 10 years of Apple did to its main product"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- sphereit start --><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/x1brett\/4742540168\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.tuaw.com\/media\/2010\/09\/apple-2000-vs.-2010-imac-iphone-evolution.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"top\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>How  time flies! In the year 2000, I was just finishing high school, listening to  Bush, and becoming acquainted with Windows 2000. Back then, I knew very little  about Apple, and I&#8217;d certainly not heard of the Bondi Bubble iMac (the first  iMac was released in 1998). In 2010, well&#8230;how things have changed for  me!<\/p>\n<p>And, as illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/x1brettstuff.blogspot.com\/\">Brett Jordan<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/x1brett\/4742540168\/\">graphic above<\/a>,  things have also changed at Apple.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredible to think that the  iPhone has taken center stage at Apple over the last three years. As noted by  some of our commentators, there has been a real lack of Mac-centric news  recently. Sure, there was the update to the iMac <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/07\/27\/imac-line-refreshed-by-apple\/\">a few months  ago<\/a>, but it&#8217;s glaringly obvious that the Mac has taken a back seat to the  iPhone &#8212; certainly in the limelight department. In fact, I&#8217;m reveling in the  fact that I&#8217;m writing about the iPhone and the iMac at the same  time!<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Mac is the center of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/09\/11\/switched-on-why-the-digital-hub-died\/\">digital  hub<\/a>, but it&#8217;s no longer the center of our digital world. When we leave the  house \/ office \/ room where the Mac lives, it&#8217;s the iPhone ( iPad \/ iPod touch)  that is constantly in our hands, and Apple knows it!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we have  to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/09\/22\/ipads-complement-primary-computers-threaten-secondary-ones\/\">come  back to our Macs<\/a> eventually (in my case, repeatedly, everyday) because the  iPhone can&#8217;t do everything that we want it to, or even some of the things that  we want done well, yet. But just looking at this picture shows how far things  have come, and how the direction taken by personal computing is becoming even  more personal.<\/p>\n<p>The only feature of the iPhone 4 that doesn&#8217;t beat the  iMac of yesteryear is screen real estate. The processor and RAM are double the  capacity of the iMac, the iPhone&#8217;s storage is 2 gigabytes larger, and it&#8217;s  flash-based memory. And of course, it&#8217;s tiny in comparison. As noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/obamapacman.com\/2010\/09\/apple-imac-iphone-evolution-2000-vs-2010\/\">Obama  Pacman<\/a>, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Osborne_Executive_with_iPhone_in_2009.jpg\">Moore&#8217;s  law<\/a> in effect.<\/p>\n<p>But when will it end? In 10 years time, will we have  an iPhone that&#8217;s five times smaller than the current one, but more powerful than  the personal computers of today? Who knows? That might be a weird phone, but  anything could happen. For now, I&#8217;m still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/09\/08\/how-to-speed-up-your-iphone-3g-while-waiting-for-the-release-of\/\">stuck  with my iPhone 3G<\/a>, and I think it might still have some Bush on it. In the  meantime, I&#8217;m just looking forward to getting the iPhone 4!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How time flies! In the year 2000, I was just finishing high school, listening to Bush, and becoming acquainted with Windows 2000. Back then, I knew very little about Apple, and I&#8217;d certainly not heard of the Bondi Bubble iMac (the first iMac was released in 1998). In 2010, well&#8230;how things have changed for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}