There’s a decent chance that you’re holding hands with an eight year-old right now. When you consider how much of our experience of the world has changed, it’s hard to believe that the iPhone is only eight years old today.

+ While the NextDraft app is gratis, the app store may have managed to pull to pull in about a half a billion in sales last week. When I was eight, I had a paper route.

+ John Markoff in the NYT, 8 years ago: “With characteristic showmanship, Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple’s long-awaited entry into the cellphone world.” (Spolier alert: It did well.)