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nowadays people have a dizzying array of smartphones to pick from none of which are more prominent than the iPhone but wasn't it just yesterday that flip phones dominated the market actually no it's been nearly a decade and in that time the device that mr. Jobs assured us had been patented up down and sideways has evolved alongside other developments in mobile technology to become very very different so let's take a little journey through time shall we the first iPhone launched exclusively on AT&T for five hundred dollars for a four gig or $600 for eight gigs of storage in 2007 brought some very important new features to the table that ended up being a major influence on the entire industry first interaction with the iPhone became almost completely touch based a big change as most smartphones of the era had some kind of physical keyboard attached to them the original iPhone was also one of the first multi-touch devices meaning that it could register multiple fingers at one table in features like pinch to zoom users were additionally treated to a web browser that could access the whole web albe it at cellular data speeds a breakthrough at the time since most web enabled phones back then could only access specially designed sites and were shut off from most regular web pages the very next iPhone the iPhone 3G was launched just over a year later and alleviated two of the main pain points of the original you guessed it 3G network speeds and prices dropped to start at $200 on contract Apple followed this one up with the iPhone 3GS a performance upgrade with a 32 gig option before rolling out the iPhone 4 whose big feature aside from the use of more premium glass and aluminum materials instead of plastic in its construction and the end of 80 exclusivity was the concept of a Retina display Apple's marketing term that they still use heavily today for a display with pixels that are indiscernible from each other at a normal operating distance a huge improvement over pixelated junk screens that were common on mobile devices up until that point this was also the point where we first saw a front-facing camera on the iPhone enabling FaceTime chats and for better or for worse self-portraits or selfies they followed this up with the 4s variant which was faster the S is for speed had 1080p video recording a 64 gig option for storing it and Siri Apple's sometimes woody voice assistant but notably at the time no LTE data support no that along with a much better camera a lighter aluminum body and a longer wider aspect ratio screen arrived with the iPhone 5 I guess Apple maps also showed up around this time but that was seen by many as a rushed out mistake and speaking of mistakes the next-generation 5s was accompanied for the first time by a second body option a plastic value iPhone the 5c will ignore that though just like everyone did and focus on the 5s which brought fingerprint verification to the mainstream with touch ID as well as a gold finish for people who care about the booing bling characteristics that it shares with the iPhone 6 that replaced it and finally addressed Apple's users desire for more storage and larger screens with both the 4.7 inch standard and 5.5 inch plus model available in up to 128 gigabyte capacities not to mention slow-mo video capture at 240 FPS and near field communication supporting Apple pay which brings us finally then to the latest model the iPhone 6s whose primary innovations are that it can record up to 4k video to its lightning-fast nvme based on board storage and 3d touch which allows the screen to distinguish hard presses versus soft presses and execute different actions accordingly what a journey right it sure has been but even though the iPhone has come a really long way in just eight years a number of common criticisms remain even now the bass iPhone has a near 60 gigabytes of storage which especially now that iOS has grown over its nine iterations is simply not enough and Apple still gives their users no way to insert an SD card for additional storage and although Apple's innovation on most iPhones has been well-received they have been slow to adopt some of the features commonly found on competing Android handsets such as 1440p or 4k screens on top of that the iPhone also keeps its reputation for being a closed environment that discourages tinkering and self repair with all that said though the iPhone is probably going to remain a mainstay on a smartphone seen for a very long time meaning that shouting matches between Apple and Android fans in comment sections just like what is probably below me here aren't going anywhere soon speaking of things that aren't going anywhere your business if you can't figure out how to stop wasting time on paperwork sitting at your computer at the end of the day when you're just tired and don't want to deal with it anymore instead of spending your time getting rested and doing the work that you're supposed to be doing and that's where FreshBooks comes in it's an online tool that you can access from your iPhone or other phone or mobile device that makes invoicing getting paid and tracking your expenses easier all those little details about like how many hours you worked on this job and your cash 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