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Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Apple iPhone first appeared seven years ago

Mark Bridge writes:

In a way, it’s hard to believe that the first Apple iPhone wasn’t seen in public until this day seven years ago. It - and the trend towards one-piece smartphones with hardly any buttons - seems to have been with us for much longer.

Yet it was 9th January 2007 when Apple CEO Steve Jobs walked on stage at at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco and announced “Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone”. The USA then had to wait until June for the phone to go on sale, selling a million units in 74 days. UK sales begin in November 2007, with the phone (2 megapixel camera, 3.5-inch display and a maximum 8GB of memory) costing £269 on an O2 contract.

But the iPhone wasn’t Apple’s first move into mobile communications. In 2005 the Motorola ROKR E1 had gone on sale. Although it didn’t bear the Apple name, it had been produced in partnership with Apple, was capable of linking with iTunes on a PC and had music controls that were familiar to anyone with an Apple iPod. Unfortunately, the relatively small memory and lack of features when compared to dedicated MP3 players meant the E1 didn’t sell as well as expected.

In fact, the Apple iPhone wasn’t even the world’s first smartphone with a full-length touch-controlled screen. Many would suggest that honour went to the LG Prada KE850, which was announced a week after the iPhone and went on sale in May 2007... while others would point to the stylus-operated IBM Simon from 1993.

However, it’s the success of iPhone that’s changed the way millions of people think about technology. And with $10 billion spent on downloadable apps in the Apple App Store last year, the iPhone is clearly here to stay. For a while, at least.

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Ashley James

1/10/2014 3:21 PM

Apple has gone from an innovative company, to an ordinary company. The companies primary focus seems to be "how to sue Samsung" This is also reflected in margins

http://bit.ly/AppleRevenueBreakDown

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Admit your mobile phone mistakes... and pay for them

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“Take some responsibility for your own actions”. There’s probably not a parent in the world who hasn’t said or thought something similar. But that’s not the message coming from regulators in the USA.

We’ve laughed in the past about coffee cups from the United States that warn about the coffee they contain. Now there seems to be a similar movement against mobile phones that connect to the internet.

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Apple's HTC patent suit could be another reason for someone to buy Palm

This is a guest post from BusinessInsider.com written by Gregor Schauer, who has worked in tech in Silicon Valley since 2000. Gregor has also recently spent two years in equity research at JMP Securities and Jefferies, covering the internet sector and enterprise software.

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Mobile business applications: the next frontier

Anthony Keyworth, Orange UK’s Director of Product Marketing, has been gazing into his crystal ball to predict which business-focussed mobile applications could change the ways we work in the next five years.

His top four future developments, published under the heading “The next frontier for mobile business applications”, are:

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It’s all been done before

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No-one really likes an anticlimax. That was my biggest complaint about the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. Plenty of potential, a nice new interface – but nothing much that wasn’t being done elsewhere.

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The Day the Multi-Touch Died?

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It’s not just me, is it?  The mobile industry really has gone a bit litigation crazy.

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