| | | | | equal to the square of its users. Hence the fax |
| What do these two pieces of technology have is | | | | machine created its own network.iPhones, specifically |
| common? Not much. Looking at a fax machine you | | | | iPhone download sites, are now following the same |
| would think a piece of equipment that every business | | | | path as the fax machine. iPhone download sites use a |
| has and seemingly outdated. The iPhone is one of the | | | | file sharing technology call BitTorrent or just called |
| most novel pieces of technology to come out in the | | | | torrents, which allows you to download files from your |
| last ten years and is seen as a fashion accessory and | | | | peers on a network. If you were one of the first |
| not a piece of office equipment. The comparison lies in | | | | people to explore this technology, you didn't have |
| the beginnings of the fax machine and what the fax | | | | many options of who you could download from and |
| machine created. | | | | what files were available. With every new peer that |
| When the fax machine first came out if you were one | | | | joined, your options grew and so did the download |
| of the first to buy one who were you faxing? You | | | | speeds. |
| faxed the only other person with a fax machine. | | | | Iphone torrents have created their own network and |
| Today, it is hard to image a business that doesn't have | | | | the difference is time. With the release of the phone in |
| one of these pieces of equipment. So how did we go | | | | January of 2007, several iPhone download sites have |
| from having just one fax machine to having millions? It | | | | already come of age. They offer millions of downloads |
| was slow, but with the addition of each fax machine | | | | ranging from iPhone movies, iPhone ringtones, to |
| the amount of people you could fax grew. As this | | | | iPhone games. Several of these are one time fees for |
| number grew, the value of having a fax machine also | | | | life and you can download as much as you want. As |
| grew. So as the value increased, the demand also | | | | people join these iPhone Download sites, just like |
| increased and now, you can't walk into a office without | | | | getting a fax machine, the network value grows as |
| finding one. This is what is known as Metcalfe's Law. | | | | well as the options of downloads and download |
| Mathematically explained the value of the network is | | | | speeds for all. |
