'My electronic Swiss army knife': readers on 10 years of the iPhone

Revolutionary, life-changing... a bit annoying? Guardian readers around the world on a decade of iPhones and the wider smartphone revolution

Lots of people seemed to think it was hopelessly complicated, or hopelessly simple - and definitely hopelessly expensive. I think a few of us geeks realised that it was a breakthrough for useable mobile computing, but I don't think anyone really saw that devices like the iPhone would become the main computing device for almost everyone, and would work their way into so many areas of people's lives so quickly.