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How to fix the iPhone’s communication problem

Communication has always driven technology forward. From the telegraph to the telephone to the internet, it’s regularly been one of the killer apps for every technological development of the last century-plus. And Apple’s devices are no exception to that. When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone, he described it as a revolutionary mobile phone, but he also called the device that would go on to dominate Apple’s business a “breakthrough internet communication device.”

Fifteen years later, we use the iPhone to communicate with others in a variety of ways, of which the phone

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