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Always On

How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In

By: Brian Chen

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Paperback | 2 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 200,000 and counting.

But the iPhone has implications far beyond the phone or gadget market. In fact, it's opening the way to what Brian Chen calls the "always-on" future, where we are all constantly connected to a global Internet via flexible, incredibly capable gadgets that allow us to do anything, anytime, from anywhere. This has far-reaching implications--both positive and negative--throughout all areas of our lives, opening the door for incredible personal and societal advances while potentially sacrificing both privacy and creative freedom in the process.

Always On is the first book to look at the surprising and expansive significance of Apple's incredibly powerful vertical business model, and the future it portends.

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Prologue	p. 1
The Dream of the Perfect Thing	p. 9
A New Frontier	p. 27
The Always-On Society	p. 43
Skyscraper Businesses	p. 65
The Battle for Control	p. 91
Smarter or Dumber?	p. 115
For Better or Worse	p. 133
Disconnected	p. 153
iSpy: The End of Privacy	p. 171
Perfect Vision	p. 191
Afterword	p. 207
Notes	p. 211
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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