Apple wasn’t the first to invent iPhone.
Cisco system was the first company to have introduced the iPhone before apple ever did. The first ever IPhone developed was a VoIP phone, it was designed to allow the owner to make video calls via Skype without the use of a computer system. Cisco system even litigated apple for borrowing “iPhone” name for their own smart phone. Fortunately, they were able to sort things out, which ended up with them keeping the rights to the name.
The iPhone design came into existence in the 1980s
The original inventor of the iPhone, Hartmut Esslinger came up with the design of a landline phone that has some very stylish features which are extremely similar todays IPad and IPhone, that was in 1983. It was a shame that the development stopped at the design phase. Otherwise the amount of improvement that will have happened from 1983 to date will have being very astonishing.
U2 is present on every single iPhone
Scroll down to the music app icon, on the iPhone applications menu, access it, and you will find out the icon for artist inside the app happens to be the silhouette of U2 also known as Bono Vertigo( A singer).
The first company on net to provide legal app download for iOS
There are several places to download application for IOS online, but it may surprise you to know for a fact, Apple app store was the first ever location on the internet to download applications for IOS legally. That includes both free and paid.
Samsung builds parts for iPhone
The processors for iPhones are manufactured by Samsung, although there seems to be a competition between apple and Samsung especially in the area of smartphone. The two tech giants seem to have become partners as Samsung now makes computer chips for apple, which apple has given them as contract.
Millions of IPhones sold already
According to Tim Cool (C.E.O) of apple, they have sold over 700 million iPhones by March 2015, its projected to reach 800 million by the end of this year.
Original name of iPhone was purple.
Another fact, is that during it development phase at apple, the given name for iPhone was “Purple”, the site where the iPhone was developed was called Purple dorm at that time.
The 2nd biggest store for smartphone application.
Google play store might have clenched the first position as biggest android app store in the world, with more than 2.2 million apps, but the apple app store is right behind them with over 2million iOS applications.
Apple makes a hefty profit on every single iPhone sold
For example, apple makes a profit of about $85 for every single iPhone 6 plus sold. while there are speculations that the iPhone 7 costs $224.80 to build and assemble. Which means the 32gb version of the iPhone 7 costs the buyer three times more than it costs apple to build. This was denied by Tim Cook (C.E.O) of apple saying no one was even close to estimating the real cost of the new iPhone 7.This may seem hard to believe, but apple actually has more money than the united states treasury, apple has over $150 billion, they can even buy all the social networks combined if they wish.
The Apple iPhone is one of the priciest out there
Even the fairly used versions of apple iPhone and iPad are extremely expensive compared to their fairly used counter parts with the same specs. In fact, apples laptops sometimes costs at least twice the amount of a laptop that has the same specifications.
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