The Machines That Changed the Pocket The Smartphone and the Rewiring of Daily Life
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ePUB 3
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Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
17.05.2026
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AI
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PublishdriveSeitenzahl
301 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1729 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781923625402
The smartphone did not arrive as one invention. It arrived as a convergence: telephony fused with computing, cameras, maps, media, payments, and social networking, all compressed into an object small enough to carry everywhere. In a single generation, that object became the default portal to modern life-how people communicate, navigate, buy, learn, work, watch, listen, and prove who they are.
This book tells the smartphone story as a fact-driven chronicle of choices and consequences. It follows the hidden architecture behind the screen-networks, standards, supply chains, operating systems, app stores, and security-and shows how competition between companies and platforms shaped what the device became. It also tracks what followed: the attention economy, the transformation of photography and news, the rise of the app industry, and the growing role of law and regulation in a world where a pocket device functions like infrastructure.
Written in a clear, narrative style, The Machines That Changed the Pocket explains how a tool became a place-and what it means when the most important machine people own is also the one they rarely set down.
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