STEVE JOBS INTRODUCES THE ORIGINAL IPHONE IN 2007

Today, The Grandma has been reading about the first iPhone, that was introduced by Steve Jobs, on a day like today in 2007.

The iPhone, retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G or iPhone 1, is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone developed and marketed by Apple Inc. 

After years of rumours and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and was released in the United States on June 29, 2007. Development of the iPhone began in 2005 and continued in complete secrecy until its public unveiling at Macworld 2007. The device broke with prevailing mobile phone designs by eliminating most physical hardware buttons and eschewing a stylus for its finger-friendly touch interface.

The iPhone instead featured only a few physical buttons and a touch screen. It featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer, and it used continuous internet access and onboard processing to support features unrelated to voice communication. Its successor, the iPhone 3G, was announced on June 9, 2008.

The iPhone quickly became Apple's most successful product, with later generations propelling it to become one of the world's most profitable companies. The introduction of the App Store allowed established companies and startup developers to build careers and earn money, via the platform, while providing consumers with new ways to access information and connect with other people. The iPhone largely appealed to the general public, as opposed to the business community BlackBerry and IBM focused on at the time. By integrating existing technology and expanding on usability, the iPhone turned the smartphone industry on its head.

In 2000, Apple CEO Steve Jobs envisioned an Apple touchscreen product that the user could interact with directly with their fingers rather than using a stylus. The stylus was a common tool for many existing touchscreen devices at the time including Apple's own Newton, launched in 1993. He decided that the device would require a triple layered capacitive multi-touch touch screen, a very new and advanced technology at the time. This helped with removing the physical keyboard and mouse. The same as was common at the time for tablet computers, human machine interfaces, and point of sale systems.

Jobs recruited a group of Apple engineers to investigate the idea as a side project. When Jobs reviewed the prototype and its user interface, he saw the potential in developing the concept into a mobile phone to compete with already established brands in the then emerging market for touch screen phones. The whole effort was called Project Purple 2 and began in 2005. Apple purchased the iphone.org domain in December 1999.

Apple created the device during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with Cingular Wireless, now part of AT&T. The development cost of the collaboration was estimated to have been $150 million over a thirty-month period. Apple rejected the design by committee approach that had yielded the Motorola ROKR E1, a largely unsuccessful collaboration with Motorola. Instead, Cingular Wireless gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone's hardware and software in-house.

The original iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, in a keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo held in Moscone West in San Francisco, California. 

In his address, Jobs said, This is a day that I have been looking forward to for two and a half years, and that today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communicator.

Six weeks prior to the iPhone's release, the plastic screen was replaced with glass. This was after Jobs was upset when he saw that his keys scratched the prototype in his pocket. The quick switch led to a bidding process for a manufacturing contractor that was won by Foxconn, which had just opened up a new wing of its Shenzhen factory complex specifically for this bid.

The original iPhone received largely positive reviews.

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An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator...
these are NOT three separate devices!
And we are calling it iPhone!
Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone.
And here it is.

Steve Jobs

NOEMÍ BOND: STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH

Noemí Bond

I'm sure everybody knows this week is very important for the tecnological sector. The Barcelona Mobile World Congress is an important appointment for many people who work in the world of technology. Day by day, the technology changes very fast. For Barcelona is very important this congress because the impact is very high. The number of visitors grows year after year. It's important for job opportunities and for the tourism sector, mainly.

Barcelona, as a destination, is best known in the world, in fact, thanks to this congress. I'd like to mention that I was at the beginning, in the preliminary of the election of Barcelona as a city to organize this congress when many requirements were necessary.

Hotels were required a commitment to be able to provide acommodation and for that reason was created the agency that works in exclusive for this event.

More information: Barcelona Mobile World Congress

All the tourism sector was euphoric when Barcelona was chosen for this congress in 2006 and will remain here until 2018. We are very lucky and very proud with this congress and I'm going to talk about a person who has a closer relation with it. Does anyone guess it?

I want to talk a little about Steve Jobs, a person who helped to change the technology in the world mobile but he was also more than this. He was a visionary, an American entrepreneur, a business man, an inventor and an industrial designer. He was the cofounder, chairman and chief executive office of Apple, CEO of Pixar, member of the Walt Disney Company's board of directors, following its acquisition of Pixar, and founder, chairman and CEO of Next.

More information: Apple 

Jobs and his friend, Steve Wozniak, are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. He was only 12 years when he saw, for first time, a computer. He was impressed. As you know, Steve Jobs couldn't finish the studies for their high cost. While he was studying, at the same time, he worked very hard and passed for a lot of difficult situations. He travelled to India looking for the inspiration. 

Steve Jobs in 2011

In 1975, he founded Apple working in the garage of his parents. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic tumor in 2003 and died in October 2011 with 48 years.

I think he had a very intensive life until the end of his life. Very few people can say this. One of the most important things applied Steve Jobs along of his life was taking profit of every adversity, every difficult situation. For example, the first time he must go out of Apple, for him was very difficult but thanks to this he could create other companies that became a success.

In 1997, he returned to Apple. He was the real visionary for the Apple brand. In this important period, he was very important for Apple driver, managing, development for innovation and design different products to the market: the Macintosh computer, the Next computer, iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad.

A detail as a curiosity: the origin of the name Apple. One day when Steve Jobs came back from an apple farm and thought the name sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating.

More information: Pixar

As you know, he was sometimes a difficult person with bad manners with some colleagues, workers and partners. After his death, in the interview, all of them also said that he was a genius.

I think his story is really very interesting. I like to share with you a video very inspirational where Steve Jobs appears in the Graduation of Students in the Standford University sending a very impressionant message.

I hope you like it!

Thank you for you attention: "With Apple the spirit of Jobs is alive".

You can't connect the dots looking forward; 
you can only connect them looking backwards. 
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 

Steve Jobs