Elements of the iPhone Strategy In January 2007, Steve Jobs announced the long-awaited iPhone. In June, Apple sold 270,000 iPhones on the first weekend it was […]
Confluence of Technologies. 3.4.1.5.1 Multitouch. Though Apple maintained a secretive and talented core, it also endeavored to acquire or to influence the development of relevant innovative technologies. […]
Development of the iPhone65 The iPhone is considered transformative, however, what made the iPhone transformative was not that its designers had created a telephone with some […]
The Sculley era. Throughout the second half of the 80’s, Apple had shipped five new major versions of the Mac System Software32. However, after an initial flurry […]
Digital Cameras28. Advances in sensors for image capture – charge-coupled devices (1969, Bell Labs) and later, in CMOS sensors (1993, JPL) – enabled the introduction of the […]
Penetration of smart phones, 2008 to present: Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/225321/global-feature-phone-and-smartphone-shipment-forecast/ 2.4.1 BlackBerry. Founded in 1984, Research in Motion (RIM) became the first wireless data technology developer in North […]
Wireless Feature Phones In 1990, some 12.4 million wireless phones had been sold worldwide. By 2001, 13% of the world’s population owned a wireless phone. In […]
Competitors 2.1 Psion. In the early 1980s, Psion created software for inexpensive (<$100) mini home computers10. By 1985 it had diversified into hardware, creating programmable calculators and […]