Since Apple Inc. produce iphone, it seems that iphone change our defination of smart phone. Iphone create a culture seems that people cannot live without it anymore, people use it anytime and anywhere. Iphone has been in the name of smartphones. It can be treat as a new cultural artefact and the latest medium of modern culture, it changes our way of communication, social connection, and having an iphone seems to be a lifestyle.
The new forms of communication
IPhone is a mobile phone with Internet capabilities, it is improtant for people so they can keep in touch with each others anywhere. However, most of smartphone are Internet capabilities, iphone different with other is that it has applications. Therefore, the Internet capabilities of the iPhone have allowed for the ‘Hyper-Coordination’ phenomenon, allowing social networking applications to instead of calling or texting, and not only texts, but also pictures or audio or even only a symbol. The message involve the exchange of information that allows for the on-going of everyday life.
The communication application “Whatsapp” has become the most popular application in Apple App Store, there is a special feature, the last seen time, it makes the conversation instantly respons. We can see that whether people receive your massages or not. It makes a pressure that people need to reply immediately, or people may think that you are not respect him or to ignore him, so that the communication nowadays has become more and more fast. Also, now mobile telephony allows for nearly continuous and ubiquitous communication under transport. It is weird to continue the last conversation when after finish the phone call, or we cannot even remember what we have told in phone call, but using the application, we can check the conversation record and keep continue the conversation in anytime, even maybe pass few hours that he sent message to you.
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