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The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with the phone part taken out, which is fine - since making calls is the one thing…

— Daniel Lyons

As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel…

— John C. Dvorak

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where…

— John Gruber

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while…

— Martin Cooper

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones…

— John Gruber

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are…

— Martin Cooper

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts…

— Ralf Hutter

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a…

— Nicholas Negroponte

9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had…

— Dave Barry

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely…

— Ashly Lorenzana

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that…

— Peter Thiel