ten years ago to the day, Steve Jobs went up on stage to introduce ” the three products “ as revolutionary as the Macintosh or the iPod. The first, an iPod with a large screen with a touch screen. The second, a mobile phone. Thirdly, and finally, a tool to connect to the Internet. ” You will understand, it is not a question of three different devices. It is a single product. And we call it the iPhone ! “, announced that he, mirthful, pleased to announce this revolutionary product after more than two and a half years of development.
The rumor for some time, and the room was obviously excited. Under the whistles and enthusiastic applause, Steve Jobs did not believe so well to say by stating : ” today Apple reinvents the phone “.
Ten years later, it’s hard to deny that the first smartphone Apple has redefined what I expect of this kind of device. As soon as the first draft, and, over the iterations, the iPhone has defined the presence of must-sees :
- a design that changed everything, with a screen on the front, a camera on the back, a Home button and a few buttons settings.
- touch screen responsive and multitouch, this was the real revolution, which has opened all the doors.
- an adaptive user interface at the base of big icons : the touch without a stylus requires a usable interface with the finger.
- a camera. If the first versions were not necessarily photos crazy, they already offered the possibility to easily take snapshots and share them then.
- a multitude of sensors to be easier to use. The compass and GPS to orient it properly, an accelerometer is useful to rotate the screen automatically for the games… Or even a proximity sensor that turns off the screen when you approach his face.
- operating system dedicated to it. Adapted from Mac OS X, the iPhone OS took up all the lower layers with a new graphical user interface.
- store application, it was not until the launch of the iPhone 3G to see coming to the App Store, which included a little over 500 applications at launch. There are now over 2.2 billion app available.
- and of course a permanent connection to the Internet. Wi-Fi and Edge only, for the first version, probably because the 3G was still not really installed in the United States at the time.
Since then, Apple has been more than a billion iphones in the world, and the smartphone represents not less than 60% of the turnover of the giant californian. A huge success which has been built up over the years, but has also raised many questions. As a star of a category, the iPhone has also synthesized many of the blame, and drew attention to some points less glorious.
Thus, the working conditions of chinese workers in charge of the manufacturing of the iPhone have been much disparaged and continue to be degraded, even if Apple is working to improve the situation and to publish transparency reports on the subject.
other critics also target the margins that Apple gets from the iPhone. The latest smartphones of the company, Tim Cook would only cost 225 dollars to manufacture so that it is sold from 649 dollars (769 euros).
Since January 9, 2007, Apple has launched (at least) one iPhone each year. The new models are now being introduced in September. It will therefore be necessary to wait until the end of the summer to find out what the teams of Tim Cook have in store for us for this grand anniversary. On the occasion of the ten years of its flagship product, Tim Cook stated : ” The iPhone has set the standard for mobile computing in the course of its first decade and this is only the beginning. The best is yet to come. “ let’s Hope that we can believe it.
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