In the past ten years, we lost hope in American politics, realized we were being watched on the internet, and finally broke the gender binary (kind of). So many of the beliefs we held to be true at the beginning of the decade have since been proved to be false—or at least, much more complicated than they once seemed. The Decade of Disillusion is a series that tracks how the hell we got here.If you’ve watched an Apple keynote sometime in the last couple of years, you might have felt the need to doze off, unimpressed by the devices on the screen.
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Ditto Google, Samsung, OnePlus, and everyone else. We went from big innovations to little ones. A big part of that is that the apps on these devices have bled into our lives and solidified the final result.A bigger one is that what we don’t feel like the devices that we own have to be upgraded every five minutes anymore. Here are just a few things that solidified our view of smartphones being just another device.
March 18, 2010: Apple Loses the Narrative on iPhone Leaks
February 10, 2011: Verizon gets the iPhone. Finally.
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April 2012: Instagram Comes to Android, Then Facebook Eats Instagram
September 2012: Apple Maps Drives Into a Ditch
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September 10, 2013: The Phonebloks Concept is Born
February 8, 2014: Flappy Bird Loses Its Wings
February 16, 2016: Apple Turns Down the FBI’s Backdoor Request
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September 2016: Everything Breaks All at Once
May 31, 2017: The President Tweets “Covfefe”
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December 20, 2017: Apple Caught Slowing Down Everyone’s Phones
December 1, 2018: Huawei’s CFO Arrested Amid Global Conflict
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