The iPhone is one of those things that just kind of seamlessly insinuated itself into our lives. It's not something that's like maybe nuclear power was like 50 years ago, where we're like, "Whoa, this is insane!" It's just kind of something that is just kind of like, It's a cornerstone of my daily life. It's something that I do every day; it's something that I couldn't get through my day without anymore. It's just sort of become a sort of digital appendage that we just carry around with us. It's tweaked and transformed so many of those little sort of social functions and forms. There's really few areas that it has left untouched.
Is it your "one device"?
It's definitely my one device. I've used it religiously throughout this thing. But I think . . . we're at the point past where we are big fans of it. There are certainly some big fan bases where people really want to upgrade and pay attention to the new features and all that stuff. But for a lot of us, we're past the point whether we like it. It just is. It is the thing that we use to facilitate our daily lives.
Watch more of the conversation with Merchant on Salon about this game-changing tool.
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