Chapter 111
No one knows that this press conference, this speech, kicked off the prelude to history.
But that didn't prevent people from applauding Ahn Joon-hyuk on the stage after a short period of silence, which was aroused before, and everyone who stood up from their seats was clapping vigorously, cheering and cheering, and occasionally mixed with whistling.
They don't know what to expect from here, but in Ahn Joon-hyuk's explanation, they discover a future with infinite possibilities, a future that used to only appear in science fiction movies, and a future where they leave behind more burdens and concentrate most of the functions in their lives on a mobile device!
An "intelligent" world!
In the midst of the tide of applause, Jmap's demonstration ended, Steve Jobs re-appeared on the stage, shaking hands and hugging Ahn Junhyuk with a smile, and the huge TV wall behind the two, Jmap's interface and Apple's LOGO were frozen, and their chatting and laughing figures were embedded in the bottom of the picture, and countless flashes flashed wildly under the stage, carving all that in the river of history.
People gave even louder applause to the old and young people on stage, because together, they announced an incredible product to the world, announcing a subversive revolution.
The next day, the headlines of the science and technology pages of major newspapers all gave way to this photo!
"They are creating an intelligent world......
The New York Times technology edition captioned the photo as "...... The moment Jobs swiped to unlock it, I was amazed by it, a very clever design. Full of technology and fashion, as well as screen scrolling, the experience of being able to browse as much as you want must have been great, but it was Ahn Joon-hyuk who really shocked me when he demoted Jmap...... God, it's hard to believe that a palm-sized device and a small map, combined, show a myriad of possibilities......"
New York Times columnist. In an exclamatory tone, Nord Curtis wrote in the article: "Ahn Joon-hyuk is in the process of demonstrating. Asked twice in a row, what do we see. What did I see? I saw a great invention! Ahn Joon-hyuk casually moved his fingers on that little device, on the small map. It tells us so many concepts – traveling, shopping, shopping. and everything in the trivialities of life. You can do it all on one machine!"
"For a moment, I even thought I was on the set of a science fiction movie, and who wouldn't have found it unbelievable? We were still used to carrying a package with us containing our wallets, maps, mobile phones, notebooks, ID cards, shopping vouchers, and other things that we might need when we left the house, but now, a day later, we suddenly realize that we can throw them all away!"
- All you need is an iPhone...... I've been thinking about it for a long time, and that kind of world is really ...... It's so beautiful!"
"Subversion: iPhone and Jmap!"
The Wall Street Journal's page deliberately used the most eye-catching font to display this line of headlines on the headline, and special correspondent Chris Jackson lamented in the article: "A day ago, we thought that mobile phones could only make calls, and a day ago, we thought that the electronic map only provided us with some beautiful, high-definition satellite pictures." But a day later, all that changed by two people!"
"No one can imagine how shocked Ahn Joon-hyuk was when he looked at the photos of a car accident that happened in 10 minutes in Los Angeles, 400 miles away, on that small screen, and when Ahn Joon-hyuk searched for a Starbucks near Apple.Store and called to tell me about that prank......! But if it can be summed up in one sentence, I think, it is a subversion of life habits!"
"His presentation made it clear that the $499 iPhone is far more than other 'smart' phones, and that the features are not something that can be used for video editing or something that ordinary users simply don't use, but really goes deep into life and provides real smart conveniences." I can't imagine what it would be like to go out one day with just an iPhone, but just imagine the ease of reducing the hassle to the simple, and I can't help myself!"
"The Macintosh disrupted the computer industry, the iPod disrupted the music industry, and the iPhone ...... When Ahn Joon-hyuk presents what he envisions in front of us, it is destined to turn all of humanity upside down!"
"iPhone+Jmap = Information Revolution!" - The Washington Post
"A month ago, if someone had told me that a mobile phone could be used like a computer in addition to making calls, I would have laughed at him for not doing his job. A month ago, if someone had told me that the crowdsourced map that the young CEO of Facebook was preaching could be used as a GPS, a shopping guide, or even a necessity in life, in addition to looking at satellite images, I would have laughed at his whimsy!"
"But yesterday's MacWorld showed me, and all the world, that it all. ”
"An operating system as intuitive as Windows, a mobile phone like a computer, and a map software that breaks through the meaning of maps. Before the Jmap demo, the iPhone was like a large, and the touch wheel was removed and replaced by a large-screen iPod. Before the advent of the iPhone, Jmap was just a very new mapping service, different from Google.Maps, but not much different...... But they come together, they merge into one, and then they are presented to all the audience...... Magic!"
With a flick of his finger, Ahn Joon-hyuk saw a car accident in Los Angeles, more than 380 miles away, and the news of the crash appeared on the Yahoo Los Angeles area web portal page two hours later, and six hours after it appeared on the local news television station in Los Angeles, and as I wrote these words. It's five hours away from being in the print media...... Ahn Joon-hyuk asked what we saw...... What do we see?"
"Yes, an information revolution! In this world, news is being produced all the time, and the crux of the problem is that in many cases, the dissemination of news is greatly restricted, television needs to produce programs, newspapers need to be typeset and printed, and we used to think that the Internet portal will be the most important place in the information revolution, but yesterday, Ahn Joon-hyuk showed us that the portal is also flawed - it also has to send reporters to interview. The same should be written for publication. If we calculate the process, it will take at least 40 minutes for even the most positive and optimistic attitude...... But Ahn Joon-hyuk's demonstration is 10 minutes! It's only 10 minutes!"
"Let's imagine. If everyone had an iPhone. So what would be its propagation time? If Jmap wasn't a map app. It's a news app, so what's the time it travels? God...... What I saw was a picture covering the whole earth. There is no time and space barrier, and there is no barrier to communication!"
This revolution is not only about the dissemination of information, but also conveys a more terrifying and exciting idea: Ahn Joon-hyuk said that Jmap will add more functional facilities to the map, parking lots, gas stations, hotels, shopping malls...... Everything that can appear on the map, not only does it make it easy for us to find, but if Jmap can cooperate with merchants to bind gas cards and shopping vouchers to Jmap users' IDs and mobile phones in numerical form, or credit cards to them, then ......"
Ahn Jun-hyuk sighed at the end of his speech, that may be the future he had in mind for Jmap - it was unbelievably beautiful!"
MacWorld has come to a successful end, but the waves it has made have just begun.
If Steve Jobs was demonstrating the power of the graphics system to the iPhone, then Ahn Joon-hyuk's demonstration of Jmap added an unparalleled layer of persuasiveness to this power.
He used several Jmap functions to clearly show people what the iPhone is a revolutionary product, and also assisted the core concept advocated by Steve Jobs that the iPhone will bring users a convenient life.
The San Francisco Chronicle used enthusiastic statements to rate Jobs' operation of swiping his finger to unlock the iPhone as the most charming action to wake up the phone in the past decade. Ahn Joon-hyuk's prank call to open the Jmap interface and order 4,000 cups of coffee from Starbucks was rated as the most historic phone call in the past decade.
With these media coverages, MacWorld2007 quickly became the center of public attention.
Many portals put photos of Steve Jobs and Ahn Joon-hyuk wearing head-mounted microphones and holding iPhones in the most prominent places on their web pages.
"Very successful speeches, Steve Jobs and Ahn Joon-hyuk, iPhone.and.Jmap!" — MSN; "Apple and Facebook have teamed up to read the prologue of the revolution to the people, so let's wait and see." "Clever ideas beyond anyone's imagination, whether it's an iPhone or a Jmap." ”——AOL
Outside the media, however, the conference was hugely controversial.
Apple fans were naturally jubilant, and with some Facebook supporters, the internet was full of talk about the event.
"The moment Steve Jobs scrolled the iTunes page with his finger, everyone was obsessed with the fascinating beauty of the combination of technology and art. And the moment Ahn Joon-hyuk demonstrated the Jmap function, it was everyone's madness! I was surrounded by applause and amazement, I couldn't believe that the world could still be carried around me like this. One of the attendees of the launch wrote in his blog.
"When Jobs swiped to unlock it, I was completely stunned in front of the TV, and even subconsciously wanted to reach into the TV and snatch that cute little gadget. What's even more incredible is Ahn Joon-hyuk, Jesus Christ! I took that picture and uploaded it, and I never thought it would appear in that way...... Oh God, my God......"
The Facebook tweet excitedly said that to prove it, he provided a few more photos of the road downstairs from his bedroom, adding nearly 10,000 "thumbs" to his Facebook page in one day.
"It's been a great show, a demo, a presentation, but I'm really looking forward to it being our future, I can't wait to try it out, use it to search for what's around me, the features I see on the video are so fascinating." ”
"I always thought Jmap was a toy, but it just wasn't used in the right place for a while. I laughed at the full-screen design of the iPhone when I first saw it in the video of the press conference, but it turned out that it was me who was laughing at it. ”
Of course, the current smartphone market is dominated by BlackBerry and Nokia, BlackBerry and Symbian have many user fans, and Jobs ridiculed BlackBerry, Motorola, and Nokia at the press conference, causing strong dissatisfaction among those users.
"Put an iPod with a baseband chip and you're going to pass it off as a phone? and take the elimination of the keyboard as a revolutionary design, come on!" With only one screen, this kind of phone looks disgusting. ”;“ I didn't have any interest in it, and I bought a big screen for $499, maybe it would break when I touched it. ”
The media also sang the opposite, "It is undeniable that the graphical interface of the iPhone is very beautiful, and the swipe unlock is beautiful, but my concern is exactly the same, the iPhone with the OS system only supports Apple's own software, in this regard, it is not competitive at all compared with Symbian and Blackberry." ”
Also in the technology edition of the headline reported on MacWorld2007 "USA Today", in the article expressed his opinion, "In addition, its design is also problematic, the shape is not fashionable, it was previously thought that it will continue Apple's usual white beautiful design, but at the press conference we can clearly see that its back is two-colored, maybe the materials used are also different." The screen is too large and easy to break, with only 4G capacity, but the price of up to $499 is very prohibitive, and it does not support 3G!"
"Ahn Joon-hyuk's painstaking sketch of the prospect is good, but with the above shortcomings, I don't see the decisive factor in its popularity, or even revolution!"
The Los Angeles Times also held the same view, "Compared with Nokia's latest models of the same price, the configuration of the iPhone is too low, even if the speech makes people reverie and makes people feel excited for a moment, but when it is launched, more people will still be discouraged by its backward configuration and high price! Maybe the revolutionary slogan shouted by Jobs and Ahn Junhyuk was raised a little early, unless Apple is willing to reduce the price, such as 200 dollars!"
"Apple has abandoned its selling point of being at the forefront of fashion for a failed product, and no matter how powerful the function is, it can't cover up its fatal flaws!" The New York Post criticized the iPhone as useless with its usual spicy and satirical content.
But for or against, no one would say that the launch was a success, when it comes to MacWorld 2007.
"It used to have Steve Jobs, and now, it has Ahn Joon-hyuk!" The Chicago Tribune published a photo of Ahn Joon-hyuk giving a speech to the audience with his hands slightly raised. (To be continued......)