Surgeon's Record November 11, 2025
“Listen up, everyone…we have iPhones, and we’re locking the doors!”
It’s early summer 2008, and I face an existential technophile crisis: walk out of the store with my newly purchased Motorola RAZR or exchange it for the freshly released iPhone 3G. Inventory was scarce with no way to predict when or where more phones would surface.
I had a rare chance to secure one.
As a lifelong tech enthusiast, I was intrigued by the iPhone, but not completely sold. To be honest, I found the original iPhone, launched a year prior, underwhelming. Compared to PalmPilots and BlackBerrys, the touch interface was novel and elegant.
But the screen was small with a somewhat grainy resolution. At that time, there was no...
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