Saturday, May 3, 2008

Internet Lesson 13


I read the article in MacLife about the iPhone, this article was published in the August edition of the magazine. The article discussed all of the new gadgets that are available with the iPhone. This article is written for the lay person as it discusses first the things that are included in the iPhone and then the technology behind the iPhone that makes it so very appealing and the way that it is protected against people adding or subtracting things from its programming.

At first the article goes over how the iPhone works. A general overview goes over how each of the parts is integrated into the Apple family. The iPhone is creating new ways for people to communicate and exchange ideas. This idea of a new exchange is put forward in the advertisements and commercials that Apple produces.

From starting out as a niche the Apple products are now mainstreamed and everyone is excited about having an iPhone. The technology behind the iPhone is taken apart so that you can see inside of it- low and behold there is a mini hard drive!

Finally the article goes on to discuss how a person in China has now broken the coding and people can add programs to the iPhone.

I evaluated this program based on the readibility of the article and the informativeness that was gained from it. Even though we all want an iPhone it was necessary to see how the inner workings came together.

I subsribed to Scientific American. This magazine is a journal written for the educated man or woman who wants to know about scientific innovations. They cover computer systems as well as other physical and chemical sciences.

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