Where do iPhone and iOS fit in after half a decade of operations? – Part 1

Apple astonished the masses in 2007 with the release of its first smartphone called the iPhone. The name was in alignment with its previous flagship computing products iPod and iMac. However, the device was quite different from other. The iPhone not only changed the smartphone culture as we knew it but also restated mobile communications as mobile computing.

Though there were a number of smartphones in the market before the release of iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Blackberries and Palmtops, they all lacked one common feature, the ease of use and user friendly interface.

Both of these factors spring from the operating system that we now know as iOS. However, it was not until 2010 that iPhone operating system was renamed to iOS. At the release of the original iPhone, presenter Steve Jobs announced that the new phone will have Mac OS X’s tethered version then-called iPhone OS.

And it did not have the power of applications at the time of its launch. It was merely home to messages, mail, a web browser and an iPod. The applications started hoarding at the App Store in 2008. There wasn’t even an App Store around the time the original iPhone hit the market. It got to get around next year with third-party apps.

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