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Smartphones

The most widely adopted object in human history, in fifteen years.

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IPhone

Jonathan Ive

The iPhone is a pivotal industrial design and interface product defined by its introduction of multi-touch, its establishment of iOS as a global platform, and its role in standardising the slate form factor and launching the app economy. Jony Ive played a vital role in its design. No material, dimension, year of release, manufacturing method, or functional limitation is stated in the sources beyond those verified claims.

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Roboto

Christian Robertson · 2011

Roboto is a functional, open, and pervasive sans-serif typeface family designed by Christian Robertson for Google in 2011. It succeeded by solving a narrow problem well — legibility on early Android screens — then scaled through permissive licensing and platform integration.

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