How the iPhone changed everything

09/23/21 • 14 min

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The smartphone landscape hasn’t been the same since Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in 2007. Peter Kafka (@pkafka) explores the legacy of this game-changing device in the first episode of the new season of Land of the Giants.

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Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes)
Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes)
Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey

Recode Media is made by:

Host: Peter Kafka
Producers: Zach Mack (@zachthemack), Matt Frassica (@mattfrassica)
Engineer: Brandon McFarland

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The WSJ’s Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) joins Recode Daily to break down his reporting: “This research made it to me because the people who I worked with were very clear that it wasn't getting acted on appropriately in the first place.”

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