But if we’re being entirely honest, there’s one specific category of app that was crucial to the iPhone taking off when previous smartphones didn’t. One of the key launch apps on the first day the App Store went live? Facebook. Social networks succeeded in making the Internet truly a personal experience. Smartphones, combined with social networks, took personal computing and made it almost intimate computing. Where would social media be without mobile computing, without smartphones: the perfect tools, always on hand to record and organize the ephemera of our daily lives? Would Facebook be at a
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