"iPhone has become so integral to people's lives that they continue to use them in their vehicles, " said Vicki Poponi, assistant vice president of automobile product planning, American Honda.

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More than any other product, the automobile has been conceived and named to evoke the future.

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By concentrating on the social aspects of the car as much as the technological, Mitchell and his team imply a complete restructuring of the automobile industry, one from a purely product-driven industry to a service industry.

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The Model T couldn't have been the Model T unless the automobile were on its way to becoming too interesting a product for consumers ever to be satisfied with a single model, a single manufacturer, a single design statement.

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