INTRODUCTION
Every year, some advancement or an invention in technology is made and it fundamentally changes the direction and momentum of the society. It may be some vehicle, phone, plane, or even the internet. All of these have drastically changed the very structure of the world, opening up doors for new ways of life that couldn’t be dreamt of before these inventions. Talking of smart phones, the most recent innovative advancement of this field is the iPhone. Here is the complete guide about the history of iPhone:
THE BIRTH OF IPHONE
Although, the first iPhone was released in 2007, yet the historical backdrop of the iPhone began a long time before it came into the market. It was an effort of years, hours of testing by a team of trustees that Steve Jobs hired at that time.
NEW APPROACH TO PCs – 2003
The start of the progressive innovation that would end with the birth of iPhone didn’t begin with a terrific vision for reshaping the world of communication. It began with an arrangement to fix the cumbersome part of a PC that was the mouse. In 2003, Apple began inside experimentation to figure out how to supplant the mouse with a touchpad that offered considerably more control and adaptability. The initial design of the iPhone was a tablet-sized, touch-controlled interface generally known as the iPad, providing users with the option to pinch, scroll, and zoom – everything that was at present inaccessible on computer.
ORIGIN AND TERMINATION OF IPOD ERA – 2004
The iPod got released in 2001 and immediately became not just everyone’s top choice but in addition one of Apple’s significant income streams. In any case, even as iPod deals were climbing quickly, Apple’s executives realized its days were limited. Clients had to carry around both an iPod and a cell phone and wanted that the cell phones could play music, something that would make iPods outdated.
COLLABORATION FOR THE ROKR E1 – 2005
At that time, Apple’s step one was to collaborate together with Motorola for the release of the Rokr E1. It was an iTunes compatible cell phone that permitted buyers to store tunes and play them through an iPod-like interface. Unfortunately, its critical limitations implied it was never going to reevaluate the market. It could only store 100 tracks, its awkward interface was hard to explore, and its slow transfer rate was baffling to utilize. The underlying plan to make their own mobile phone with a touch display came directly from the highest point of the organization’s hierarchy that was Steve Jobs himself.
ROOTS OF THE IDEA
In an appearance at the All Things D meeting in 2010, Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and CEO at that point, described the ideal concept of the iPhone which established the foundation of the project purple.
PROJECT PURPLE – 2006
The primary obstacle Apple needed to defeat in the development process of the iPhone wasn’t about innovation or manufacturing. It was building a group. To maintain a strategic distance from their rivals finding their category-defining innovation, Steve Jobs was inflexible that nobody from outside the organization could deal with Project Purple. Once a group was picked, they were part into two independent however firmly incorporated groups: hardware and software. They spent long evenings and weekends conceptualizing, testing, and iterating various forms in their devoted building located in the Apple Cupertino campus. Their consistent work, in the end, yielded results when a prototype was finished in spring 2006, looking approximately the same as Apple’s 2004-time iPod Mini (a metallic body with round edges).
URGE TO CHANGE THE SCREEN – 2007
In January 2007, Steve Jobs gladly walked onto the stage at the MacWorld 2007 show. The iPhone Steve Jobs was holding had scratches on the screen. Not due to some sharpened metal used to gouge fragments into the glass, but because the screen was made of solidified plastic – a similar plastic utilized on iPod screens. The day after his keynote address, Steve Jobs told his group that he needed the screen to be changed to glass.
AID FROM SCIENCE
Designers changed newly developed techniques for strengthening glass and made another sort of glass but extremely solid. Their testing indicated that while typical glass could withstand 7,000 pounds of weight for each square inch, that new kind of glass could withstand 100,000 pounds of weight for every square inch – opening up another world of applications that were beforehand inadmissible for glass.
LAST MINUTE CHANGES
Testing to decrease the thickness of the glass but its 4mm thickness hadn’t been in a lot of progress till Steve Jobs brought in 2007, however despite the fact that Apple wanted 1.3mm thick super-solid glass. Several hours of testing went into the improvement of what is presently known as Gorilla Glass, and only 11 days before the first iPhone was discharged, Apple gave an official statement and breaking news that the iPhone would now have a glass screen.
RELEASE OF FIRST iPhone
The Apple iPhone first went into the market for sale on 29 June 2007, about five months after it was initially declared on 9 January 2007. The organization’s then-CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced the new cell phone to a wide audience. He said during his keynote speech at MacWorld 2007, “This is the day I’ve been waiting for the last two years”. With each new age of the iPhone, Apple has looked to stretch their smart phones to the furthest reaches of what is technologically capable and at this moment. In the last 13 years since the birth of the iPhone, 24 models have been released and considering the rate, many more are yet to come!
