June 29 celebrates his birthday legendary iPhone. In this regard, let us recall the most interesting facts related to the history of the cult series of smartphones.
1. Initially, the iPhone was thought of as a tablet.
Here's what Steve Jobs said about his creation:
"Actually, I started with the tablet. I had an idea to get rid of the keyboard so that you could print directly on the glass multitouch-display ... Six months later, our guys showed me a prototype of such a screen. I took it to one of our guys, and in a few weeks he had an inertial scrolling. I thought: "My God, yes we can make a phone out of this!" And he put the tablet back on the shelf "
2. The world has sold more than a billion iPhone.
A billion-dollar model was sold in the summer of 2016.
3. The most expensive part of the iPhone is the Retina display.
Many people think that the most expensive component is the processor, but in fact it is not. The buyer pays most of the money for the display: in the iPhone 6 it costs 54 dollars, and in the iPhone 6 Plus - 52 dollars.
4. The first iPhone was created in conditions of the strictest secrecy.
Steve Jobs has forbidden Scott Forstall to involve in the work on the iPhone specialists who do not work for Apple. In addition, when dialing the team to work on the phone, Forstall had no right to tell her members what exactly they would be working on. He only warned them that they would have to work overtime and come to work on the weekend.
5. The developers expected that the presentation of the iPhone would prove to be a failure.
During the presentation in 2007, the iPhone was still at the prototype stage, and many doubted that the demonstration of the smartphone would be successful. And to the surprise of the creators, everything passed without a hitch without a hitch. However, after 5 months, another, significantly improved version of the iPhone went on sale.
6. iPhone can fall from a height of 4000 meters and not break.
This was discovered by the parachutist Jarod McKinney, when he jumped with a parachute, dropped his phone precisely at this altitude. What was the surprise of Jarod, when using GPS-navigation he managed to find his smartphone in working order!
7. In all the commercials and screenshots, the display shows 9:41 or 9:42.
This is explained quite simply: every time a new iPhone model is released, Apple employees prepare a report dedicated to it. The presentation starts exactly at 9. Speakers try to make the image of the new model appear on the big screen at about the 40th minute of the speech, but they know that it will not be possible to finish the report exactly in 40 minutes. Of these considerations, and were first used 2 minutes, and in the new versions of the smartphone - one.
8. Icon "Artists" - is the silhouette of rock singer Bono Vox from the group "U2"
The group "U2" was one of the first to present its discography on iTunes.
9. The name of the Cydia application, which allows users to search for software packages for the iPhone, translates as "Apple Fletcher".
The apple moth is a garden pest, a worm that lives in apples.