Apple wins ‘SciAm 50’ award
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 26, 2007 at 12:24pm
Apple has been named to the “SciAm 50” awards from Scientific American magazine. They honor “instances of new machines or chemicals that come close to the true meaning of innovation as something entirely new.”
Apple was named in the category of “Other Research, Business and Policy Leaders” along with Marin Soljaci of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Robert Ghrist of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vin de Silva, Pomona College.
Here’s what Scientific American had to say about Apple: “the human impulse to cut the cord runs deep. Apple released the iPhone as an ultimate wireless interface, and people lined up to pay $600 for it. The handheld device combines all the functions of an advanced mobile phone with those of the latest iPod, thereby allowing users to wander freely while making phone calls, accessing the Web, sending text messages and e-mail, taking photographs, listening to music and watching videos. Although some earlier phones had offered many of these functions, the iPhone’s full-size “multi-touch” screen gave customers far more flexibility, including use of a standard keyboard for messaging, streaming of YouTube video and a visual list of voice mails—not to mention access to iTunes, by far the dominant online music source.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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