Ruby Justice-Thelot explains how a 2023 PhD thesis maps 20 years of smartphone evolution onto natural selection, from the rise of touchscreens to the extinction of headphone jacks:
"De Lima uses a biological framework for us to understand the evolution of the smartphone."
"We
Ruby Justice-Thelot predicts "Is this AI?" will become an everyday question, and says the answer will sometimes be "Does it matter?":
"Whether it be an illustration in a luxury brand video, whether it be the copy in the tagline of a makeup brand, this question will become more
Ruby Justice-Thelot breaks down @lizwandersworld's theory that the iPhone didn't just revolutionize smartphones.
It shifted creative innovation away from hardware and into software:
"Oftentimes these points of divergence come at a time of technological innovation."
"After the
Ruby Justice-Thelot argues that whenever Apple skipped a feature on the iPhone, the rest of the industry started treating it as unwanted:
"We were really in an age of multiplicity in what was offered to us as consumers of technology."
"I think the iPhone is a truly goated