When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in San Francisco, January 9, 2007, to introduce the first iPhone, no one could imagine the impact that small devices would have on Apple, smartphone industries, and the world in general. At that time, the smartphone market was much different – and much smaller – than today.
In Q4 2006, only 18 million smartphones were sent, with an additional 2.5 million wireless handhels and 1.5 million traditional handheld devices (via Canalys). In comparison, more than 300 million smartphones were sent to Q3 of 2021. That means a total of only 22 million smart cellular devices are sent to Q4. Even more storytelling, Canalys noted that this small seemingly represents a 30% increase from year to year.
In the early days of the smartphone market, Nokia was a company to beat, with BlackBerry, Motorola, Palm, and Sony Ericsson which rounded up five (via Appleinsider). One thing that defines all large companies is a telephone design that enters a physical keyboard. On the market, work and Apple saw the opportunity for revolutionary changes.
What immediately attracts the attention of most people is the touch screen interface (through history). The whole front of the iPhone is one big screen, completely without a physical keyboard. Instead, the interface is adjusted to the user, hides or displays the keyboard as needed. Even though there are revolutionary features, many are not sure the iPhone will get traction.
In an interview with USA Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the following: “There is no possibility that the iPhone will get a significant market share. There is no chance. This is a $ 500 subsidized item. They might make a lot of money. But if you are right True seeing 1.3 billion cellphones sold, I would rather have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, rather than I will have 2% or 3%, which is what apples might understand. “
Unfortunately for other smartphone makers, their dismissal of the impact of the iPhone on the market is their own destruction. Nokia and Blackberry market share plummeted, because investopedia shows, with both of them making major changes in their business models only to survive.
Most smartphones now mimic the features that are pioneered by the iPhone. However, digital trends have noted that the market is mostly shared between the iPhone and the Google Android operating system (OS), which debuted in September 2008 and borrowed many of the iOS. Handheld GPS along with low up to medium camera and MP3 player is fully upside down, because the iPhone takes it in one device.
It will not be ignored is the impact owned by the iPhone on Apple itself. Apple began as a computer maker, and almost died as one (through Business Insider). Before his work returned to the company, he limped on the banks of bankruptcy.
As recorded by insider business, work helps rotate the company with the original iMac, followed by G3 Mac, G4, and iPod. Apart from the company’s success with these products, the iPhone pushed it to all new heights. Apple switches from being a Mac OS computer that is far from the second to Windows – which also makes a successful music player – to a company that is a market leader in the smartphone industry.
Even after rising Android, which according to Statista currently has a share of lions from the global market, Apple continues to be the dominant force. The success of the iPhone also helps encourage Apple to become a company A.S. First worth $ 1 trillion (via CBS News).