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The Line Of Iphones

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The history of the line of iphones begins with a direction from steve jobs to Apple Inc’s engineers, where he asked them to investigate touchscreens and tablet computer, which later came to the invention of the Ipad. Also, many have noted the devices similarities to Apple 's previous touch screen portable device, the Newton Message Ipad. Like the Newton, the Iphone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple 's head of design, Jonathan Ive.

In April 2003 at the “All Things Digital” executive conference, Jobs expressed his belief the tablet PCs and traditional PDAs were not good choices as high-demand market for apple to enter, despite many request made to him that Apple create another PDA. He did believe that cell phones were going to become important devices for portable information access and that what mobile phones needed to have was excellent synchronization software. At the time, instead of focusing on a follow up to their Newton PDA, jobs has Apple put its energies into the Ipod, and the Itunes software released on september 7 2005. Apple and Motorola released the ROKR E1, the first mobile phone to use Itunes. Jobs was unhappy with the ROKR and released a version of Itunes that included references to an as yet unknown mobile phones that could display pictures and video . Ed Zander inspired steve jobs with motos multimedia and smartphone product concept. In result, Apple gained new product concept which was named Iphone while Motorola ironically

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