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I couldn't finish reading the article.

The first iPhone made connectors and electronic components easier to get to? Sure, it indirectly helped, as any other new, recent electronic device did. But please don't try to rewrite history.

He couldn't make things work over the phone, although he invested large sums of money and dedicated hardware? Come on, I rigged an old analog (rotary) phone to do that using a relay when I was 14 or 15 years old. After all, in that case all he needed to do was to switch on the heating and nothing more.

The whole thing just reads like a marketing fluff piece.