Most people who have a smartphone, will say the same thing 'I cannot live without it' But i will show you that there was in fact a LIFE before the first iPhone was invented, hard to believe isn't it? ;)
Before the iPhone, mobile phones were pretty basic, with just calling, SMS, and bluetooth, but then Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple had other ideas. He wanted a phone that was similar to a computer, and people could use them in their everyday lives, and very easily.
a few points:
- Carriers ruled the industry with an iron fist
- To access carriers’ networks handset makers capitulated everything
- Carriers dictated phone designs, features, apps, prices, marketing, advertising and branding
- Phones were reduced to cheap, disposable lures for carriers’ service contracts
- There was no revenue sharing between carriers and manufacturers
- There was no notion of phone networks becoming dumb pipes anytime soon
- Affordable, unlimited data plans as standard were unheard of
- A phone that would entice people to switch networks by the millions was a pipe dream
- Mobile devices were phones first and last, not usable handheld computers
- Even the smartest phones didn’t have seamless WiFi integration
- Without Visual Voice Mail, messages couldn’t be managed non-linearly
- There were no manufacturer owned and operated on-the-phone application stores as the sole source
- An on-the-phone store having 65,000 apps downloaded nearly 2 billion times was not on anyone’s radar screen
- Low-cost, high-volume app pricing strategy with a 70/30 split didn’t exist
- Robust one-click in-app transactions were unknown
- There was no efficient, large scale, consistent and lucrative mobile app market for developers large and small
- Buttons, keys, joysticks, sliders…anything but the screen was the focus of phones
- Phones didn’t come with huge 3.5″ touch screens
- Pervasive multitouch, gesture-based UI was science fiction
- Actually usable, multi-language, multitouch virtual keyboards on phones didn’t exist
- Integrated sensors like accelerometers and proximity detectors had no place in phones
- Phones could never compete in 3D/gaming with dedicated portable consoles
- iPod-class audio/video players on mobiles didn’t exist
- No phone had ever offered a desktop-like web browser experience
- Sophisticated SDKs and phones were strangers to each other
To be quite blunt:
- easy to talk to friends and family, via social networks, emailing, and mobile phones
- we now have cordless phones, we dont have to be stuck in one place talking!
- we have smart phones, that are practically mini computers! they are so convenient, and can be taken everywhere!
- we have laptops that can take with us out, because you cant take a computer to a business meeting!
- we now have ipods, mp3 players, we dont even need radios! music is very easy to access
Technology has really changed many peoples lives. It is so easy to talk to people, and get in contact with celebrities, and friends via networks like Facebook and Twitter.
;) BTW I HAVE NOT FINISHED THIS ;)
IN FINISHING PROCESSSSSSSS!!!
Question: How has the iPhone changed the phone market?
I have chosen this question, because the smart phone is really up to date, and everyone i know has one. I really love smart phones, and you can do so much with them, and they are always talked about in the media, so think it will be a interesting topic to do.
The texts i might be interested in is the new iphone 4S and also the three day crash of blackberry messenger.
I also want to talk about the first smart phone, and also how many different smart phones we can get on the market today, and how they are different from a normal phone.
Here is some links to websites i may use:
http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/?sissr=1#
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/apple-iphone-4-694980/review
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/14/iphone-4s-review/
http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/05/first-iphone-commercial/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/iphone-worm/
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/229535/20111012/blackberry-not-working-bbm-rim-twitter-when-it-will-come-back-crash-crashed-three-days-3-statement-h.htm
http://www.bestsmartphone2011.co/
http://bestsmartphone2011.net/
I want to focus on:
How smartphones have changed the phone market on the whole
How people have changed because of smart phones
What can we get on smartphones, that we cant get on normal phones
How has smart phones changed lives
Life before the iPhone websites:
http://counternotions.com/2009/08/26/pre-iphone/
