chances are yours are within arm’s reach
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watchmojo.com 8 we’re counting down the
top 5 facts about iPhones
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content come along as we dial
in some of the lesser-known details and
fun tidbits about the world’s most
recognizable smartphone number 5 it
started out as a tablet project what
we’re gonna do is get rid of all these
buttons and just make a giant screen
it’s hard to fathom all these years
later that the world might have been
deprived of the now iconic
iPhone however Steve Jobs had originally
commissioned Apple engineers to research
tablet designs it was only after they
presented their research to him that he
realized a device with a multi-touch
screen would be perfectly suited for a
mobile phone based on what the Apple
engineers showed him Jobs decided to
shove his tablet idea and begin work
immediately on what would eventually
become the first iPhone all things
considered even if he’d stuck with his
original project it seems safe to assume
that you would have eventually delivered
the iPhone regardless and this
is a call on your iPhone number for the
device has led to hundreds of patents
the iPhone is an extraordinary device it
allows for constant communication and
constant connectivity to things that are
extremely difficult to achieve as such
it should come as no surprise that since
it was released in 2007 the technology
related to the iPhone has caused Apple
to file over 200 patents no buttons on
the front you’ll notice that’s a key
differentiator patents that the company
owns include the swipe to scroll motion
forced touch the pressure-sensitive
technology that can distinguish between
different levels of force as well as
patents related to wraparound display
the iPhone has allowed the company to
lock up hundreds of key technologies
ensuring that their product remains the
most sought after mobile phone in the
world and boy have we patented it
number three Apple’s smartphone wasn’t
the first iPhone and we almost actually
didn’t ship a couple times On June 29th
2007 the very first iPhone was released
or at least that’s what Apple wants you
to believe the truth is that a different
iPhone was launched just 22 days before
Steve Jobs’s brainchild was announced
the iPhone was developed by Cisco a
multinational technology conglomerate
however the two devices couldn’t have
been more different the Cisco iPhone was
a mobile device that was developed so
that people could use Skype without
having to sit in front of a computer
ultimately the two companies came to an
agreement with both maintaining the
rights to the iPhone name speaking of
different names for the iPhone number
two the iPhone was originally called
purple
seeing as how we’ve been living in an
iPhone world since 2007 it’s hard to
imagine the groundbreaking device going
by a different name however according to
Scott Forstall one of the men
responsible for creating the iPhones iOS
software it originally went by the
codename purple
this wasn’t a rarely used nickname
though when the team of designers and
engineers responsible for creating the
iPhone took over a wing of Apple
headquarters they called it the purple
dawn in reference to the name of their
new project hmm if you ask us asking
someone if they’ve seen your purple
lying around sounds a bit weird number
one Apple has sold over 1 billion
iPhones are there any left
there may be one when Steve Jobs
introduced the iPhone he said that the
company’s goals were to attain 1% of the
global cell phone market within a year
in retrospect that number was a
shockingly humble objective the current
reality is that Apple is earning
somewhere between 70% and 90% of the
profit created by global smartphone
sales each quarter this number makes
sense when you consider that as of 2016
Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones
and you can bet your bottom dollar that
that number will continue to rise
unfortunately Apple rarely releases
exact sales numbers so we may not hear
the new figure until they’ve hit another
major milestone all right guys this line
extends around to city blocks I’m here
at approximately the 3 hour mark so
which of these facts did you find the
most interesting check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
at this very moment welcome to
watchmojo.com 8 we’re counting down the
top 5 facts about iPhones
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content come along as we dial
in some of the lesser-known details and
fun tidbits about the world’s most
recognizable smartphone number 5 it
started out as a tablet project what
we’re gonna do is get rid of all these
buttons and just make a giant screen
it’s hard to fathom all these years
later that the world might have been
deprived of the now iconic
iPhone however Steve Jobs had originally
commissioned Apple engineers to research
tablet designs it was only after they
presented their research to him that he
realized a device with a multi-touch
screen would be perfectly suited for a
mobile phone based on what the Apple
engineers showed him Jobs decided to
shove his tablet idea and begin work
immediately on what would eventually
become the first iPhone all things
considered even if he’d stuck with his
original project it seems safe to assume
that you would have eventually delivered
the iPhone regardless and this
is a call on your iPhone number for the
device has led to hundreds of patents
the iPhone is an extraordinary device it
allows for constant communication and
constant connectivity to things that are
extremely difficult to achieve as such
it should come as no surprise that since
it was released in 2007 the technology
related to the iPhone has caused Apple
to file over 200 patents no buttons on
the front you’ll notice that’s a key
differentiator patents that the company
owns include the swipe to scroll motion
forced touch the pressure-sensitive
technology that can distinguish between
different levels of force as well as
patents related to wraparound display
the iPhone has allowed the company to
lock up hundreds of key technologies
ensuring that their product remains the
most sought after mobile phone in the
world and boy have we patented it
number three Apple’s smartphone wasn’t
the first iPhone and we almost actually
didn’t ship a couple times On June 29th
2007 the very first iPhone was released
or at least that’s what Apple wants you
to believe the truth is that a different
iPhone was launched just 22 days before
Steve Jobs’s brainchild was announced
the iPhone was developed by Cisco a
multinational technology conglomerate
however the two devices couldn’t have
been more different the Cisco iPhone was
a mobile device that was developed so
that people could use Skype without
having to sit in front of a computer
ultimately the two companies came to an
agreement with both maintaining the
rights to the iPhone name speaking of
different names for the iPhone number
two the iPhone was originally called
purple
seeing as how we’ve been living in an
iPhone world since 2007 it’s hard to
imagine the groundbreaking device going
by a different name however according to
Scott Forstall one of the men
responsible for creating the iPhones iOS
software it originally went by the
codename purple
this wasn’t a rarely used nickname
though when the team of designers and
engineers responsible for creating the
iPhone took over a wing of Apple
headquarters they called it the purple
dawn in reference to the name of their
new project hmm if you ask us asking
someone if they’ve seen your purple
lying around sounds a bit weird number
one Apple has sold over 1 billion
iPhones are there any left
there may be one when Steve Jobs
introduced the iPhone he said that the
company’s goals were to attain 1% of the
global cell phone market within a year
in retrospect that number was a
shockingly humble objective the current
reality is that Apple is earning
somewhere between 70% and 90% of the
profit created by global smartphone
sales each quarter this number makes
sense when you consider that as of 2016
Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones
and you can bet your bottom dollar that
that number will continue to rise
unfortunately Apple rarely releases
exact sales numbers so we may not hear
the new figure until they’ve hit another
major milestone all right guys this line
extends around to city blocks I’m here
at approximately the 3 hour mark so
which of these facts did you find the
most interesting check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
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