Name one event in history that both iOS and Android users would love to reminiscent? Apple and other operating platform producers may be fierce competitors right now, maybe more intense that before, but they both will agree that there was a point in the past that was critical in smartphone revolution.
It happened eight years ago when Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld 2007 to unveil probably Apple’s most important product to date, the original iPhone.
When it was launched, the device looked like nothing else available from the competition, and the handset quickly became a target for rival companies, who wanted something similar. From the time on, Apple knew that they just hit a jackpot, while the smartphone industry are aware that the new beginning has just started.
Smartphone makers soon realized the future of mobile devices would be all about big-screen devices and touch-based interfaces, and began adapting their strategies for the future. Today the vast majority of smartphones, regardless of operating system, come with big touchscreen displays and are ready to offer the same basic functions the original iPhone focused on (music, phone capabilities and Internet access) but also plenty of others that weren’t available on the first iPhone.
The clash between platform fans will never go away, as they criticize competing operating systems and handsets, and accuse the other side of copying design elements and features each time something new comes along. But one fact still remains: Without the original iPhone, the current smartphone landscape may have looked entirely different.
It happened eight years ago when Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld 2007 to unveil probably Apple’s most important product to date, the original iPhone.
When it was launched, the device looked like nothing else available from the competition, and the handset quickly became a target for rival companies, who wanted something similar. From the time on, Apple knew that they just hit a jackpot, while the smartphone industry are aware that the new beginning has just started.
Smartphone makers soon realized the future of mobile devices would be all about big-screen devices and touch-based interfaces, and began adapting their strategies for the future. Today the vast majority of smartphones, regardless of operating system, come with big touchscreen displays and are ready to offer the same basic functions the original iPhone focused on (music, phone capabilities and Internet access) but also plenty of others that weren’t available on the first iPhone.
The clash between platform fans will never go away, as they criticize competing operating systems and handsets, and accuse the other side of copying design elements and features each time something new comes along. But one fact still remains: Without the original iPhone, the current smartphone landscape may have looked entirely different.
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