Top 5 Things the iPhone Has Given the World

27.12.2010
Has the iPhone changed the world? Perhaps not, and I'm certainly not an Apple fanboy. But the iPhone brought innovations that have infected the rest of the tech world. There's no denying that where Apple treads first, the rest of the world follows.

So here are the top five things the iPhone has given us in the years since the first version was released.

1. The App Store

To play off of what Nicole Kidman's character says in "To Die For," you're not anybody nowadays unless you have an app store.

Every mobile phone platform has one, and even browsers are getting in on the act, with Mozilla and Google adding app stores for Firefox and Chrome respectively. The venerable Mac OS X operating system will get one in the New Year and, as history has continually proved, Windows will surely follow (there are already rumors that ).

The iPhone App Store did a clever thing: It made software cool. Somehow was strong enough to make us believe that a new utopia had been created. Nobody wants to install boring shareware, but now everybody wants to install apps. And let's be honest--shareware and apps are the same old thing.