As we look toward the future of mobile, it's important to remember how quickly and completely things can change. There's no better example of that than Apple's iPhone which introduction in 2007, which totally flipped the mobile industry upside down.
It changed everything about phones, forever, at a crucial point in their development. Sure, mobile gadgets were capable of making calls, accessing the Internet, and playing music before Apple came along. But it was the iPhone that made it accessible and exciting to normal people for the first time. The iPhone inspired a generation of copycats, and totally changed the game for mobile hardware and software. Perhaps more importantly, Apple challenged many of the mobile industry's established business models, seizing a lot of the power away from the phone companies.
In 2008, Apple has been challenged by Android (Google's entry into the mobile phone business) which has been rewriting some of the rules itself. Google make android an open source so that all companies can use it and customize it by there own. But that was the apple which will change the mobile industry.
It changed everything about phones, forever, at a crucial point in their development. Sure, mobile gadgets were capable of making calls, accessing the Internet, and playing music before Apple came along. But it was the iPhone that made it accessible and exciting to normal people for the first time. The iPhone inspired a generation of copycats, and totally changed the game for mobile hardware and software. Perhaps more importantly, Apple challenged many of the mobile industry's established business models, seizing a lot of the power away from the phone companies.
In 2008, Apple has been challenged by Android (Google's entry into the mobile phone business) which has been rewriting some of the rules itself. Google make android an open source so that all companies can use it and customize it by there own. But that was the apple which will change the mobile industry.