Much has been written about the creation of the original iPhone. Over 13 years have passed, and the team responsible for designing and building the world’s most famous smartphone has given us plenty of details about how it was made. They and Jobs managed to create a unique device It’s what all current smartphones are based on, even with the help of an unlikely Microsoft collaborator.

Today we delve deeper into the history of the creation of the original iPhone and collect the words of Joshua Strickon, one of the Apple engineers who worked on the project. One of Apple’s oldest employees The person who was with the company at the time and worked on the original iPhone project. Jobs’ explanation of the device he wanted to make was unexpected, to say the least.

A device for everything, even in the bathroom

The iPhone project was born years before Apple presented it, the company had a capable multi-touch screen technology that was being developed, but they didn’t really know how to use it. We mentioned the year 2003 at the beginning. The company had focused on a tablet but then they reduced the size and postponed the idea that would bring us the iPad..

But Jobs’ initial idea was to create a device for the home that was easier to use and more portable than a computer. Steve wanted to use it everywhere the house, even the bathroom.

“Steve wanted a device that he could use to read his emails while on the toilet”

According to Joshua Strickon’s own statements, some Apple engineers had been working on multi-touch technology for a tablet since 2003.”The story was this Steve wanted a device that he could use to read his emails while on the toiletthat was the extent of the product specifications. But you can’t make a device with enough battery life to get it out of the house, and you can’t get a chip with enough graphics capability to make it useful. We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what to do“

Steve Jobs wanted an iPad, but they released the iPhone first

After several years of research, Steve decided that it was better to propose the phone before the tablet, so that slowly and through the development of components, the technology would advance until a proper tablet was created. It should be noted that The original iPad was the first device with a processor 100% designed by Applethe A4, which included the iPhone 4 a few months later. This processor was already powerful enough for a screen the size of an iPad with so many pixels.

In the end, Jobs got his wish, and it came two-fold. Both iPhone and iPad are devices with which we can check email from the bathroomand from anywhere we want. Iconic devices that transformed the world—that’s why the original iPhone is now worth thousands of dollars.

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