Chapter 516: iPhone
Jobs smiled slightly, showing a confident look, "Don't worry, I'll show you a video first!" he said, clicking on a video on his MacBook. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At this time, everyone's eyes were all on the large LCD screen in the conference room.
In the video, an employee pressed the power button of the iPhone, and the mobile phone screen lit up in vain, but everyone was stunned when they saw that the screen showed that it needed to be unlocked. At this time, the tester drew a simple quadrangular pattern on the screen with his finger, unlocked the screen, and then a new mobile phone interface appeared. The video pauses here for five or six seconds to make it clear what's in the interface. Then, the staff member who was making the presentation slid his finger to the left on the screen, and the interface was flipped, and a new interface appeared.
"Oh, that's cool!!" Many people in the conference room suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
It is not surprising to use touch technology to unlock, after all, single-touch technology has been applied in many fields, the most familiar is the bank ATM, which can be operated by the touch screen with keys, but like this, using fingers to slide to unlock, it is simply cool, it is by no means so simple as a single touch! The interface of the Symbian system is dirty, there is only one main interface, you need to click on a certain option, you can enter the next interface, and the mobile phone system of this iPhone is a multi-interface, you can see it by swiping left and right.
At this time, in the video, the employee starts to connect to WiFi.
Everyone was shocked to see that the mobile phone could be connected to wifi! When did the mobile phone become so awesome?
When I wanted to belong to the password, I saw a virtual keyboard suddenly pop up at the bottom of the screen. Employees operate with one hand, and enter the password in three or five clicks, which is even faster than traditional keyboard input.
"The design is fantastic, I was still wondering how this phone could not have a keyboard, it turned out to be a virtual keyboard, it was perfect!!"
"yes, I'd like to buy one right now!"
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At this moment, everyone understands that the biggest difference between this kind of mobile phone and traditional mobile phones is that it is completely operated by touch, and it is a new technology that is different from single-touch technology!!
Jobs looked at the crowd and said loudly: "
One of the key technologies used in iPhones is Multi-touch technology, which began in 1982 with the invention of the University of Toronto's multi-touch screen that senses index finger pressure. In the same year, Bell Labs published the first academic paper on touch technology. But so far, only the multi-touch technology jointly developed by Immeision and Williams Electronics is the most mature!
In fact, as early as seven years ago, the iPhone smartphone project began, and it was then that Williams Electronics and Immersion began the research and development of multi-touch technology.
The iPhone project was proposed by Mr. Williams, who had just acquired Apple at that time, and then decided to drastically transform Apple, among which the iPhone project was proposed during this period. Since then, the iPhone project has been listed as Apple's most important and mysterious research project.
Under the leadership of Mr. Williams, more than a dozen companies such as Williams Electronics, immersion, ARM, and Qualcomm have participated in the project. Among them, Apple is mainly responsible for the research and development of mobile phone operating systems, and has now developed the iOS 1.0 operating system, which is exactly what you have just seen in the video.
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After Jobs finished speaking, everyone was extremely shocked. The iPhone project was proposed by Henry, and it was not surprising to everyone, genius is always so amazing, everyone is used to it. It's just that they never expected that the project would be secretly developed and lasted for seven years!!
Are iPhones going to change the world?
Everyone couldn't help but take a deep breath.
At this time, Jobs began to speak again, and showed everyone the powerful functions of the iPhone one by one, including contacts, messages, mail, iTunes, iBooks, FaceTime, FaceTime, etc., iTunes is already familiar to everyone, and it is the place to download songs. And iBooks, at a glance, you can tell that it is a place to read books, however, the books inside need to be purchased.
When it came time to present FaceTime, those present were amazed!
This turned out to be a video call, and although the pixels are not high, it still looks very clear. As long as you sign up for an Apple-ID account, you can use FaceTime to make video calls directly with them via email, name, or even mobile phone number. Of course, the premise is that the other party must also have Apple products, as well as Apple-ID and FaceTime.
Jobs then said: "
When Apple releases iPhones, it will also release new versions of iMac and MacBook products, all three of which will have iBooks, FaceTime and other functions, that is, as long as Apple users iMac, MacBook use FaceTime and mobile phones to communicate!!
And the principle of FaceTime is actually voip. As for what is voIP, everyone must know that it is to digitize the analog signal (Voice) and transmit it in real time on the IP Internet network in the form of data packets. As long as you can connect to the Internet, to be precise, it should be connected to wifi, then using FaceTime for video calls is free, in addition, you can also use 3G, 4G network traffic for video calls, of course, this needs to be charged!
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Jobs paused and said, "It is not difficult to imagine that once the iPhone is launched, it will undoubtedly be popular! Then, a new era will begin." With the increasing popularity of mobile phones, I believe that the future will be the world of mobile Internet, and the PC side will become weaker and weaker. Therefore, whoever can occupy the mobile Internet field will be able to occupy the largest market share in the future!
The purpose of Mr. Williams to gather you today is actually to let all of your companies enter the mobile Internet, and the iPhone is the breakthrough! Next, I will introduce to you the biggest highlight of the iPhone -- the APP-Store!
At this time, on the LCD screen of the conference room, the staff clicked on a software with a "A" symbol, the interface of this software is very simple, there are five buttons at the top, which are written "Featured", "Ranking", "Category", "Purchased Items", "Update" ,Here are some third-party software,Including icq,Amazon,eBay,Facebook,wps,YouTube, etc.,The left side of each software is the logo of the software,The upper right corner is the name of the software,There is a small symbol in the lower right corner,Write the software download fee,After clicking,You can download and install the softwareγ
"Most of the software in the APP-Store can't be downloaded, just make this interface for everyone to feel. Presumably, through this interface, you already have a rough idea of what APP-store does. That's right, APP-store is a platform provided by Apple for third-party software vendors, users come in and pay to download, Apple can get a 30% share. β
Not only that, but with the app-store, Apple will be favored by third-party software vendors and willingly develop all kinds of software on Apple's platform!!
Now doing software development, the most rare thing is to do marketing. Think about it, even if the software is produced, how can it be sold? Is it to advertise and sell on other websites? And this will inevitably lead to high marketing costs.
If you develop software on the Apple platform, you can sell it for free on the app-store, which has three major platforms: iMac, MacBook, and iPhone, which is equivalent to tens of millions of users. Software developers cut off marketing costs, funds can be used to develop software, software quality up, the probability of fire is naturally greater, once the fire, software developers will get rich!
In addition, whether an operating system is good or not, whether it is popular or not, the quantity and quality of third-party software are very crucial. Undoubtedly, the app-store can solve these problems very well, which can be called an artifact!
Just when everyone was shocked, Henry spoke: "Jobs will send each of you a copy of the API information about the iPhone in a moment, and when you go back, you will port the software or website of your respective company to the iPhone." On April 1, 2003, Apple will hold a product launch conference, and will also announce the API application programming interface, so you have three or four months ahead of other companies to develop, be sure to hurry up and complete the mobile software development as soon as possible. β
"Yes!!" everyone nodded in unison.
Henry nodded, then stood up from his chair and said, "I have something to do, so I'll go first, and you can continue the meeting!" he said, and walked straight out the door.
Out of the building, a ray of bright sunlight shone on Henry's face, warm. At this moment, a large group of reporters squatted outside the building. Without him, can it not be shocking that so many Internet bigwigs have come to the meeting? The Internet companies represented behind them can almost monopolize the entire Internet......
(To be continued.) )