less than a week Ago the Apple mobile device and he served 10 years on the market. The January 9, 2007 during a conference at the MacWorld San Francisco, the late Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone, a brand that, after seven versions has sold more than a billion computers around the world.
Although now a first generation iPhone may seem very archaic due to the rapid pace at which technology advances, just reached its first decade of life. However, for this icon mobile to see the light many years passed.
Since 1983, the firm based in Cupertino, California, already working on the design of a desk phone with a touch screen operated with a stylus stylus with the capacity of processing data, an idea that did not took off because it seemed more of a concept than a product that could be commercialized.
The company also had a foray failed with the production of a personal digital assistant (PDAS), called the Apple Newton and that was with a system of the same name that was produced from 1993 to 1998; however, it is qualified by the specialists as a failure.
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Although the PDAs are little remembered, all major manufacturers produced at least one –HP, Casio, Palm, Sharp, Blackberry, and Sony, among others, and although they began as personal agendas, it soon morphed into mini-computers that they set an important precedent in the functions performed by the mobile devices of today.
Many manufacturers were aware of this potential. As Nokia, the company with the most mobile phones sold thanks to that it was disruptive in terms of equipment designs and functions, who began to develop its first smart devices that were equipped with a Symbian operating system.
This system was a product of the alliance of several mobile telephony companies, among which were Nokia, Sony Mobile Communications, Psion, Samsung, Siemens, Arima, Benq, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Sharp, among others.
Although there were already computers with capabilities equal to or exceeding by far those of the iPhone, its design was the winner.
Based on the technology that Apple had developed earlier in his iPod, and in other interventions with Motorola in which he had installed the famous iTunes on the computer, Moto Rokr E1, the firm sought to design the phone that I had in mind.
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The first generation iPhone had a touchscreen with only a single physical button at the front, very stylized and similar to the iPod Nano; it had wifi connectivity, e-mail, software for text messages and voice, iTunes music player and with a rear-facing camera of two megapixel camera.
In the united States the iPhone 4 gigas is sold in $ 499, while the 8 gigs cost $ 599.
The firm had many detractors as Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft ceo, who said: "at this time, we are selling millions and millions of phones a year. Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months you are going to have the more expensive phone, with difference, that has never been in the market".
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Against all odds, shortly after the launch, Apple began to reap the success of his team. For 2009, the magazine Time named it as the invention of the year and for 2001, the profit of the company reached the amount of us $ 13 billion, far surpassing the earnings of companies like Google or Microsoft.
the case of The iPhone is a success, however have now fallen to other giants that were before, even though the model has not had many changes on the outside, people look forward to the next generation, make rows and camp for days outside of the stores than Mac. Before they put on sale a new device, we speculate on the new design or functions, and it seems that this is not going to end.
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