Secrecy was also unthinkable today. Only a few people knew about the iPhone. Many Apple engineers didn’t even know what they were working on. They thought it was another iPod or some other type of device. Development began in 2004 and a thousand employees worked on it, led by hardware engineer Tony Fadell, software engineer Scott Forstall and designer Jony Ive. The highly confidential project was codenamed “Project Purple”.
“From time to time a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. Today is the day, today is the day we reinvent the telephone.” At that time, smartphones already existed, but they were clunky, or the manufacturers could not sell it properly.
The first iPhone didn’t even have 3G, yet it literally caused a revolution. It sold a million copies within a few days. It had a 3.5″ touch screen that could be comfortably operated with one or more fingers (a first for multitouch) and a pleasant user interface. It cost $499 and could only be purchased with a two-year contract with AT&T. It later reduced the price by a third and provided compensation for to the first customers who bought it at full price.
Jobs didn’t want buttons on his phone, which set him apart from smartphones from Nokia, BlackBerry or Motorola at the time. These brands basically don’t exist anymore or have been bought by Chinese companies. Others have adapted and are also making pancakes without buttons.
The first iPhone was powered by a Samsung processor, had 128 MB of operating memory and a 1400 mAh battery. It was assembled by Foxconn for Apple, and software support (new OS versions) lasted two years.
Apple simply changed the world 18 years ago. A year later came the iPhone 3G, which already supported faster data transfers, GPS and the newly introduced AppStore. The next year came the iPhone 3GS, which brought higher performance (and this was also my first smartphone when I put down my Sony Ericsson k750i). It was followed by the iPhone 4, which significantly changed the design, brought a display called Retina, and Apple already designed its own processor for it.
On October 4, 2011, the iPhone 4S was introduced and a day later Steve Jobs died.
Source: www.cnews.cz
