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Jobs smiled with confidence, "Don't worry, I'll show you a video first!" Then, he clicked on a video on his MacBook.

At this time, all eyes were on the large LCD screen in the conference room.

In the video, an employee presses the power button of the iPhone, and the screen of the phone lights up in vain, but the screen shows that it needs to be unlocked, and everyone is stunned. At this time, the tester drew a simple quadrilateral pattern on the screen with his fingers, and then unlocked the screen, and then a brand new mobile phone interface appeared. The video pauses here for five or six seconds, so that everyone can see clearly what is in the interface. Afterwards, the finger of the demo staff slid to the left on the screen, and the interface turned upside down, and one new interface after another appeared.

"Oh, that's so cool!!!" Many people in the conference room exclaimed in surprise.

It is not surprising to use touch technology to unlock. After all, single-touch technology has been applied in many fields. The most familiar one is the bank ATM machine, which can operate keys through the touch screen, but it is simply too much to use finger slide to unlock like this. Cool, it's not as simple as a single touch! And looking at the mobile phone interface, it is completely different from the most popular Symbian system nowadays. The interface of the Symbian system is messy. At present, there is only one main interface. You need to click a certain option to enter the next interface. However, this iPhone mobile phone system has multiple interfaces, and you can see it by swiping left and right.

At this time, in the video, the employee starts to connect to wifi.

Everyone was shocked when they saw that their mobile phones could connect to wifi! When did the mobile phone become so awesome?

When it was time to belong to the password, a virtual keyboard suddenly popped up at the bottom of the screen. Employees can enter the password in three or five strokes with one hand, which is even faster than traditional keyboard input.

"The design is great. I was still wondering why this phone doesn't have a keyboard. It turns out that there is a virtual keyboard. It's perfect!!!"

"Yeah, I want to buy one right now!"

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At this moment, everyone understood that the biggest difference between this mobile phone and traditional mobile phones is that it is completely operated by touch, and it is a new technology different from single-touch technology! ! !

Jobs looked at the crowd and said loudly: "

One of the key technologies used in the iPhone smartphone is the Multi-touch multi-touch technology, which began in 1982 with the multi-touch screen that senses the finger pressure of the index finger invented by the University of Toronto. That same year, Bell Laboratories published the first academic literature on touch technology. But so far, only the multi-touch technology jointly developed by Immeision and Williams Electronics is the most mature!

In fact, as early as seven years ago, the iPhone smartphone project began, that is, since then, Williams Electronics and Immersion have started the research and development of multi-touch technology.

The proposer of the iPhone smartphone project was Mr. Williams. At that time, he had just acquired Apple, and then decided to make drastic changes to Apple. Among them, the iPhone smartphone project was proposed during this period. Since then, the iPhone smartphone project has been listed as Apple's most important and most mysterious research project.

Under the leadership of Mr. Williams, more than ten companies including Williams Electronics, Immersion, ARM, and Qualcomm have participated in the project. Among them, Apple is mainly responsible for the research and development of the mobile phone operating system, and has now developed the operating system, which is exactly what you have just seen in the video.

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After Jobs finished speaking, everyone was shocked. The iPhone smartphone project was proposed by Henry, and everyone was not surprised. Genius is always so amazing, and everyone is used to it. However, they never expected that the project would be developed in secret, and it would last for 7 years! Seven years, how many projects in the world are worthy of Henry's deployment for 7 years! ! !

Will the iPhone smartphone change the world?

Everyone couldn't help but took a deep breath.

At this time, Jobs began to speak again, and showed everyone the powerful functions of the iPhone one by one, including address book, information, email, iTunes, iBooks, FaceTime, FaceTime, etc. Everyone is already familiar with iTunes, which is the place to download songs. As for iBooks, you can tell at a glance that it is a place to read books, but the books inside need to be purchased.

When the FaceTime was demonstrated, the people present were amazed!

This turned out to be a video call. Although the pixels are not high, it is still very clear. As long as you register an Apple-ID account, you can use FaceTime to make video calls with each other directly through email, name or even mobile phone number. Of course, the premise is that the other party must also have Apple products, as well as Apple-ID and FaceTime.

Jobs said at this time: "

When Apple releases iPhone smartphones, it will also release new versions of iMac and MacBook products. These three products will have functions such as iBooks and FaceTime. That is to say, as long as Apple users iMac and MacBook use FaceTime to communicate with mobile phones ! ! !

The principle of FaceTime is actually voip. As for what voip is, everyone must know that it is to digitize the analog signal (Voice) and transmit it in real time on the IP Internet network in the form of data packets (Data-Packet). As long as you can connect to the Internet, to be precise, you should be connected to wifi, then you can use FaceTime to make video calls for free. In addition, you can also use 3G and 4G network traffic to make video calls. Of course, this requires a fee! However, all in all, FaceTime can still save a lot of phone bills for Apple users, and it is so fashionable and fun, it will definitely be liked by the public!

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Job paused, and said: "It is not difficult to imagine that once the iPhone smartphone is launched, it will undoubtedly become popular! Then, a new era will open. And this era is exactly what I mentioned before. The era of mobile Internet! With the mobile phone With increasing popularity, I believe that the future will be dominated by the mobile Internet, while the PC terminal will become weaker and weaker. Therefore, whoever can occupy the mobile Internet field will be able to occupy the largest market share in the future!

The purpose of Mr. Williams convening everyone today is to let all your companies enter the mobile Internet, and the iPhone smartphone is the breakthrough! Next, I will grandly introduce the biggest highlight of the iPhone—the APP-Store! "

At this time, on the LCD screen in the meeting room, the staff clicked on a software with the "A" symbol. The interface of this software is very simple. "List", "Category", "Purchased Items", "Update", below are some third-party software, including icq, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, wps, YouTube, etc., the left side of each software is the software logo, the upper right The corner is the description of the software name, and there is a small symbol in the lower right corner, which says the software download fee. After clicking, the software can be downloaded and installed.

"Most of the software in the APP-Store cannot be downloaded, just to make this interface for everyone to experience. Presumably, through this interface, you have already roughly understood what the APP-store does. Yes, the APP-store is Apple's The company provides a platform for third-party software vendors, users come in and pay for downloads, and Apple can get 30% of the share.”

After seeing this app-store coming out, everyone instantly realized that this thing should become Apple's cash cow! Not only that, with the app-store, Apple will definitely be favored by third-party software vendors, and they are willing to develop various software on the Apple platform! ! !

Nowadays, the most rare thing to do software development is to do marketing. Just imagine, even if the software is produced, how can it be sold? ? Do you want to advertise and sell on other websites? And this will inevitably lead to high marketing costs. Rich software developers are okay, but what about poor ones?

If you develop software on the Apple platform, you can sell it on the app-store for free. The app-store has three major platforms: iMac, MacBook, and iPhone, which is equivalent to tens of millions of users. Software developers cut marketing costs, and all the funds can be used to develop software. The quality of software improves, and the probability of becoming popular is naturally greater. Once it becomes popular, software developers will get rich!

In addition, whether an operating system is good or not, whether it is popular or not, the quantity and quality of third-party software are very critical. Undoubtedly, the app-store can solve these problems very well, it can be called an artifact!

When everyone was shocked, Henry spoke up: "Jobs will send each of you a copy of the iPhone's API application programming interface materials later, and after you go back, you will transplant your respective company's software or website to the iPhone. Terminal. On April 1, 2003, Apple will hold a product launch event, and at the same time, it will announce the api application programming interface. Therefore, you have three or four months ahead of other companies to develop. Be sure to hurry up and do it as soon as possible. Complete the software development of the mobile terminal."

"Yes!!!" Everyone nodded and responded in unison.

Henry nodded, then stood up from the chair and said, "I still have something to do, so I'll go first, you continue the meeting!" He said, and walked straight out the door.

After leaving the building, strands of bright sunlight shone on Henry's face, making him feel warm. At this moment, a large group of reporters squatted outside the building. Without him, wouldn't it be shocking that so many Internet bigwigs came to the meeting? The Internet companies behind them together can almost monopolize the entire Internet...

(to be continued ~^~)