There are loads of technical, debatable, reasons why the iPhone might or might not be the Invention of the Year, as Time has recently given the iPhone that designation. But there’s one thing you can’t ignore, and that’s the fact that in the months prior, and the months since its release, there hasn’t been any other piece of consumer technology that’s been as hotly discussed or debated — even in places where it *hasn’t* been released. More to the point, the iPhone is a piece of technology that caused an entire industry to take notice, and in many cases, force it to respond, whether it be to the touch screen piece of technology, or the relationship between the parent company and a phone carrier.
Is the iPhone the Invention of the Year? There might be more important inventions made this year, but I don’t think there was one that was more hotly debated or industry-changing as the iPhone. So on those grounds my vote is a “yes” .
