IPhone ya cika shekaru 13 a yau

Daidai shekaru goma sha uku da suka gabata, a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 2007, an ƙaddamar da iPhone ta farko. A lokacin ne Steve Jobs ya hau kan dandalin Cibiyar Moscone ta San Francisco don ba wa jama'a da suka yi mamaki wata na'urar juyin juya hali wacce za ta kasance a matsayin iPod mai fadi mai fadi mai sarrafa tabawa, wayar hannu mai juyi da kuma fasahar sadarwa ta Intanet.

Maimakon samfura uku, a zahiri duniya ta sami guda ɗaya - ƙanƙantar ƙanƙanta a ra'ayi na yau - wayowin komai da ruwan. IPhone ta farko ba shakka ba ita ce wayar farko ta farko a duniya ba, amma ta bambanta da tsofaffin "abokan aikinta" ta hanyoyi da yawa. Misali, ba ta da maɓalli na maɓalli na hardware. A kallo na farko, ya yi nisa daga cikakke ta wasu fannoni - baya goyan bayan MMS, ba shi da GPS, kuma ba zai iya harbi bidiyo ba, wanda har wasu wayoyi "wawa" za su iya yi a lokacin.

Apple yana aiki a kan iPhone tun aƙalla 2004. A baya can, an sanya masa suna Project Purple, kuma wasu ƙungiyoyi daban-daban na musamman suna shirya shi don zuwansa a duniya a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Steve Jobs. A lokacin da aka kaddamar da iphone a kasuwa, ya fi yin gogayya da wayoyin Blackberry, amma kuma ya samu karbuwa, misali Nokia E62 ko Motorola Q. Ba wai kawai masu goyon bayan wadannan nau’ikan iPhone din ba su yi imani sosai tun da farko. , da kuma daraktan Microsoft Steve Ballmer a lokacin har ma ya bar kansa a ji, cewa iPhone ba shi da wata dama a cikin kasuwar wayoyin hannu. Koyaya, wayowin komai da ruwan da ke da nunin multitouch da gunkin apple cizon a baya ya kasance nasara a ƙarshe tare da masu amfani - Apple kawai ya san yadda ake yin shi. Daga baya Statista ya ba da rahoton cewa Apple ya sami nasarar siyar da kusan iPhones miliyan biyu a cikin 2007.

"Wannan ita ce ranar da nake jira shekaru biyu da rabi," in ji Steve Jobs lokacin da yake gabatar da iPhone ta farko:

A ranar haihuwarsa na goma sha uku a yau, iPhone kuma ya sami kyauta mai ban sha'awa dangane da adadin na'urorin da aka sayar. Don haka, Apple bai buga waɗannan lambobin ba na ɗan lokaci, amma manazarta daban-daban suna yin babban sabis a wannan jagorar. Daga cikin su, wani binciken Bloomberg na baya-bayan nan ya gano cewa Apple yana kan hanyar siyar da kusan iPhones miliyan 2020 a cikin kasafin kuɗi na 195. A bara, adadin ya kai kimanin miliyan 186 iPhones. Idan da gaske haka lamarin ya kasance, jimlar adadin iPhones da aka sayar tun lokacin da aka fitar da samfurin farko zai kusanci raka'a biliyan 1,9.

Amma kuma masu sharhi sun yarda cewa kasuwar wayoyin komai da ruwanka ta cika ta hanyoyi da dama. Ko da Apple ba ya dogara gaba ɗaya ga tallace-tallace na iPhones, kodayake har yanzu suna da matukar muhimmanci na kudaden shiga. A cewar Tim Cook, Apple yana so ya mai da hankali sosai kan sabbin ayyuka, babban kudin shiga kuma yana fitowa daga siyar da kayan aikin lantarki - wannan rukunin ya haɗa da Apple Watch na Apple da AirPods musamman.

Steve Jobs ya gabatar da iPhone na farko.

Albarkatu: Abokan Apple, Bloomberg