iPhone couldn’t be created just anywhere
CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper rankled readers for suggesting that Silicon Valley is the only logical origin for the iPhone.
The more interesting question is why Apple enjoys a consistent qualitative design edge over equally brainy rivals in other countries. Critics can quibble, but the iPhone is a remarkable piece of work. I’ve seen lots of other smart phones, but nothing like this. When a colleague brought his newly purchased iPhone into the newsroom on Monday, a room full of otherwise hard-bitten reporters was reduced to a gushing scrum of starry-eyed goobers.
The debate rages on.
