The Fake iPhone and Authenticity
April 19, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Special Features
Touch screen phones are the in thing today. Everyone seems to want one. Or rather, maybe the market is making us think we want one. If you’ve read the Authenticity Book you will realize how thought provoking the discussion on authority is. Truth is, the iPhone wasn’t the inventor of touch screen phones, but boy did they authenticate it as a way of life. When BlackBerry released their own touch screen phone, is it a fake iPhone? When Nokia released its 5800 phone, is it really just a real product, fake iPhone? You tell me.
Phone manufacturers tend to sit back to discover what the next big trend will be. Then they mass market it producing half wit products that don’t really make you want to go “Wow!” Instead, they try to copy, looking more like a failed iPhone than a real product.
P.S. — the Nokia 5800 and BlackBerry Storm are actually great touch screen devices.
