It was January 2007 when Steve Jobs officially announced the 1st Generation iPhone. At the time, there’s no doubt that he foresaw how the newly created concept of smartphone applications would become part of our everyday life. Fast forward a decade and we now have apps for literally everything, from trackable maps to online shopping, online banking to instant messaging.

It’s a new year and what better way to start working from home for the 10th month of the pandemic than with a Slack outage. For more than 3 hours on Monday 4th January, Slack users were left to fend for themselves with the use of none other than emails! to communicate with their teams – a notion that was surely lost by the 2010’s.