Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Apple iPhone and its history

By Bobby Roberts

The new Apple iPhone when finally released in 2007 had a strong audience as it offered a great looking apparatus with an pioneering and novel product, combining the technology of iPods, a innovative mobile phone. The Apple iPhone boasted a mobile with a handy internet gadget. Even before the trendy Apple iPhone was released the fans were speculating about the outlook of the new iPhone.

The Beginnings

The visible or at least documented history of the Apple iPhone starts with the instruction of Steve Jobbs, CEO of Apple for engineers to start researching touch screens, at that time, most probably still having the development of Apple tablet PCs in mind. However, already in April 2003, he declared in a conference that the development of traditional PDAs or tablet PCs was not the way ahead for Apple.

The emergence of the new product, Apple iPhone was announced in January, new innovations perhaps lie in the realm of cell phones, and thus, technologies, connected to them should be improved upon. The appearance of the new product, Apple iPhone was announced in January 2007 at the MacWorld Expo with a release date for 2007 June. Users will be able to access Web application on the internet apple declared in a conference in June 2007.

Release and Further Developments

Hundreds of people lined up outside the shops on June 29 2007 when finally Apple iPhones went on sale in the United States so that they could be the first to own the new Apple iPhone. When it was initially released there were only two variations of the iPhone. First with a flash drive of 4GB and second with a flash drive of 8GB with price a range from $499 -$599. The 4Gb iPhone was finally discontinued when the 8GB was the preferred choice of the buyer.

Moreover, as a further development, the price is radically reduced by $200 as soon as September, for which Apple was quite widely attacked as this pricing and the sudden drop is believed to be unfair. The popularity of the Apple iPhone in the beginnings is by no means as great as expected.

For example, the sales for the first weekend were initially estimated to be somewhere between 200,000 and 700,000 products. But just roughly 145,000 activations were registered for the first weekend.

Moreover, the applications of Apple iPhone were originally only available to those who make a two-year subscription with AT&T, with offers that do not pay off for everyone. There was also wide media coverage of a 300-page bill, after which AT&T makes a change in its billing practices.

In Europe the Apple iPhone was launched at the end of 2007, United Kingdom, France, Germany all presented the iPhone with problems and difficulties as it only offered its customers the Apple iPhone through the one supplier.

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