Certainly the iPhone is a wonderful piece of kit that combines style and functionality in a way that nobody apart from Apple has seemed to be able to do, but is it really the eighth most important invention of all time? Certainly the customers of a certain mobile phone network believe that it is.
A survey that was carried out amongst 4,000 consumers all aged between eighteen and sixty five years placed it in eight place out of a hundred options. That is only seven places behind the wheel which they had decided was the most important invention of all time.
The inventions that were considered to be more important that the iPhone were, in addition to the wheel, the Aeroplane, the light bulb, the internet, the computer, the ordinary telephone and penicillin. Immediately following the iPhone was the flushing loo followed by the combustion engine. Facebook was considered to be the 83rd most important and Google the 26th.
It is amazing that the iPhone is valued so highly, after all there are many other phones on the market that offer similar levels of performance and flexibility. In fact since its launch in 2007 over 42 million iPhones have been sold.
Certainly the survey suggests that many things are now considered to be better than sliced bread. Sliced bread was considered to be the 71st most important invention just ahead of the push up bra which came in at 78th.; in 100th place, at the bottom of the list, was the lowly clothes peg.
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