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Spontaneous Insight: revisiting a 2008 iPhone web app
Revisit Spontaneous Insight, a web-based people-search service listed for iPhone in March 2008, with original artwork and archived sources.
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I Am Hungry: remembering Boston’s early iPhone dining-deals app
Revisit I Am Hungry, Zaang’s Boston restaurant-deals app, with authentic product imagery and an update on its original App Store listing.
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Charity apps for iPhone: what changed since 2010
Revisit CauseWorld, Raise the Village and other early charity apps, and find VolunteerMatch’s current home on Idealist.
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New York On Tap: finding the next stop with an early iPhone
Revisit the mobile New York On Tap bar directory and its practical approach to small-screen local search.
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MSN Messenger on the first iPhone: the original web widget
Identify the third-party MSN widget behind this 2007 bookmark and understand why a messenger’s interface and network are different things.
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iPhone sho’fr: automotive reviews in the mobile browser
Identify sho’fr’s early iPhone community and how local automotive reviews differ from a service specification.
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Apple’s early iPhone RSS reader: a web-shaped beginning for mobile news
The reader.mac.com experiment belongs to the first iPhone’s browser-based era and still offers a useful lesson about choosing a manageable news feed.
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iPhone recipes: organize the dishes you actually cook
A practical recipe-library workflow for saving sources, recording changes, and planning a useful grocery list.
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CheapMF: an early mobile product-search tool
Revisit the product search and customer-review workflow behind this 2007 iPhone web listing.
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YouTube on the first iPhone: the mobile website and built-in app
Understand the two early routes to YouTube on iPhone and why the date of an archived page matters.
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iTweetr: a Twitter-shaped preview of the first iPhone web
Dean Robinson’s pre-launch concept shows why a timeline, navigation and a clear sense of place mattered on the first touch-screen phone.
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iPhoneDigg: what an early mobile interface chose to leave out
David Cann’s 2007 Digg experiment illustrates the shift from fitting a desktop site onto a phone to organizing a task around touch.