Is Apple's iPhone the Monolith of Legend?

Is Apple's iPhone the Monolith from 2001? Is it the cause of aggression, tool use, intelligent life on Earth? PC Magazine thinks so. Either that or they have a superlative sense of humor.

For those of you who do not receive the physical magazine if you could have seen the picture of the iPhone, it featured the object of so much attention over the past few weeks with the sun rising behind it, and its shadow being cast over some other object. Actually, it could be The Monolith. Perhaps it is responsible for manipulating our thoughts and actions. Maybe it has always been there, watching, waiting....