Answering My Main Inquiry Question – Capstone #5

The next step in Capstone is answering my main inquiry question. Mine is “How has the invention of the iPhone affected our daily lives?”

I thought that my main inquiry question would be a good question for Capstone research and I was right. I thought that it would be hard finding good research and I was right but after I did get my research, Capstone has been coming to me much easier than before.

We had to write an essay on answering our main inquiry question and Ms. Edwards seemed to like mine which made me really happy. But, I thought that my essay turned out really well and here it is:

Capstone Essay

Grant

      Do you have an iPhone? Did it change your daily life? Well, it definitely did for me. For my Capstone project, I am doing it on iPhones. My main inquiry question is, “How has the invention of the iPhone affected our daily lives?” Throughout my research, I have come to figure out that the iPhone has really affected our daily lives. Probably, the biggest way it has affected our daily lives is that it took multiple gadgets and combined them into one. For example, before the iPhone, you would most likely have a camera, a communications device, and an iPod as three separate gadgets. But the iPhone took all three of those gadgets and united them into one.

      The first way that Apple’s iPhone affected our daily lives was that it had a camera built in. Among my research, I have figured out that in the years before the iPhone, people usually carried around a camera with them. With the iPhone, people stopped carrying cameras around with them and just used their phone. To the current days of 2017, the most used camera in the world is the built-in iPhone camera. The reason the iPhone is the most popular can be attributed to the slim design of the iPhone. People can put the iPhone in their pockets, and when they want to take a picture of something the can just pull it out of their pocket and take a picture of whatever they want to take a picture of. That is why the camera feature is one of biggest ways the iPhone has affected our daily lives.

     The second way the iPhone changed our daily lives was as a communications device. Before, most people had a flip phone or a Blackberry device. The latter was mostly popular for its easy-to-use mechanical keyboard which was an attractive feature for people who wrote a lot of emails. When the iPhone came out, it made it easier for people to text, and write emails with the larger on-screen touch keyboard. Also, social media made a big impact on communicating on smartphones. For example, with Instagram, people are able to post pictures and then communicate with texting in the comments section down below your post. Overall, the iPhone has made it much easier for people to communicate with each other.

      A third important way that the iPhone has changed our daily lives is that it includes a touchscreen iPod. This iPod really changed people’s lives because, before the iPhone, people usually carried an iPod and cell phone as two separate devices. The reason why was, of course, was that they wanted to listen to music and use the touch-screen display, while their cell phone most likely did not have those capabilities. When the iPhone came out, one of the biggest reasons it became such a hit is that it was an iPod with calling and cellular data capabilities. Another reason it became such a big hit was that people only needed to carry one device instead of two. Still, to this day, you see people listing to music on their touch-screen iPhones all the time. Steve Jobs’s idea of including in an iPod has made a great impact on people’s daily lives.

      In conclusion, the invention of the iPhone with its features of a camera, a communications device (i.e., able to make calls, texts, email) and built-in iPod for listening to music has made a very positive impact on people’s lives.

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  1. Thank you for sharing your research and insights in such an organized and smoothly written essay, Grant! The iPhone is an amazing product and definitely worthy of a Capstone study. 🙂

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