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The Last iPhone, a poem by Robert Fabricant

June 11, 2009


The Last iPhone of possibilities. Image from Core77.

What if you are holding the last iPhone ever made?
What if the 3G-S looked no different than the 3G?
What if the 4G looked no different than the 3G-S and so on…?
What if all iPhones looked the same from now on?

What if it didn’t matter that the iPhone could be made 1/16” thinner next year?
What if it didn’t matter that the iPhone could be produced in a host of different colors and metallic finishes?
What if the design could not be improved upon?
What if Apple stopped releasing new iPhones?

What if you could expand the capabilities of the iPhone infinitely through software?
What if there were a billion different apps available to download instantly?
What if you could plug-in new hardware modules to extend the capabilities even further?
What if you could send in your iPhone to have the internal components upgraded each year?

What if you subscribed to the iPhone instead of owning it?
What if the iPhone was guaranteed for life?
What if you never bought another phone?
What if Apple really decided to think differently?

(What would you be willing to pay for a Continuously-Upgraded-iPhone-for-Life? I would love to hear your answers…)

Read the original blog post by faculty member Robert Fabricant’s at Design4Impact.

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                                                                                                                        1. Hi Robert,

                                                                                                                          Great thinking. great content. You listed all the possible updates to Apple iphone in your questions in the format of poem. Really nice to read this. No matter how many upgrade it undergoes, “an iPhone is an iPhone” and nobody can compete that.

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                                                                                                                                  1. I was dreaming of iPhone. And now what I see such work of art I should dream about it.
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                                                                                                                                    1. So many questions lead to a truckload of ideas and all of them are mind boggling. Thanks for this huge stimulus to think about iPhone.

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                                                                                                                                      1. Thanks for this. To be honest I’m getting a bit sick of everyone owning an iphone. These things are all part of a big fad and in a couple of years people will have forgotten about them and moved onto something else. What is wrong with buttons people??

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                                                                                                                                          1. The iPhone your poem discribes is priceless really. A perpetually upgrading gadget that does everything technology can muster. Can a price be put on it, a subscription? What if instead of plugging your iPhone into your computer to sync, you plugged your computer into your iPhone…

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                                                                                                                                                1. Clever poem.  iPhone has now upgraded, a bit faster but still closed apps.  How ‘bout makin’ a poem too for Nexus One. He. smile

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