Apple’s iPhones Hit an Evolutionary Stasis

The original iPhone was the consumer tech equivalent of the Apollo mission — but you can’t just keep going back to the moon

Charles Arthur
OneZero
Published in
5 min readSep 10, 2019

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The new Apple iPhone 11 (L) and iPhone 11 Pro (R) are displayed during a special event on September 10, 2019
The new Apple iPhone 11 (far left) and iPhone 11 Pro (right) are displayed during a special event on September 10, 2019, in the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s Cupertino, California, campus. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

DDid you enjoy the iPhone launch event? Or did you perhaps feel that it was kinda more of the same — a story we’ve heard before about faster processors, better (and now more!) cameras…

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Charles Arthur
OneZero

Tech journalist; author of “Social Warming: how social media polarises us all” and two others. The Guardian’s Technology editor 2005–14. Speaker, moderator.