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Introduction

Steve Jobs is a co-founder of a company well known as Apple. He is not the only founder and creator of Apple, he had a little help from a few other people like Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The main thing Apple is known for is its iPhone, Ipads, and other gadgets like the Apple Watch. The company was made from the ground up and want a successful company right when it began.

1.1 Education

Steve Jobs attended a high school in Cupertino, California which he later graduated from. He, later on, went to meet his future partner Steve Wozniak and became coworkers with him, and built a relationship with him. After high school, he started to attend a school named Reed College but only stayed in for one semester to later drop out and further his work with Steve Wozniak. He and Steve Wozniak both worked for a company named Atari. It was the start to a great future for both men and gave them a life-changing opportunity. This is where it all began for both men by working for the company Atari which jump-started their careers. Although Steve Jobs is a college dropout, he found a way to become successful by learning first hand and pushing forward in his career.

1.2 The start of Apple

In 1976 is when Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded a company well known as Apple Inc. It wasn't until the drop of the Mactonish and they had a great way to introduce themselves by using television platforms. After the breakout for the company, it later led to the creation of the iPhone, iPod, Ipad. These are electronic devices that helped make the company what it is today and the most iconic device is the iPhone. The iPhone has burst its way into the society around us and is the heart of the company. The first iPod introduced was in 2001 which was a huge trademark in the company because it later evolved into the iPhone. The iPod was a great use for its time which allowed you to use any app including youtube, safari, google, and gaming apps although you did need wifi connectivity. The iPhone was later Introduced in 2007 which was the start of the biggest trademark for their company. Apple revolutionized the way we have made our phones and has started changing the way we use our phones. This was just the beginning of the iPhone and it had many many generations following after the first. Apple is continuously making new products to satisfy the customer's needs. The first-ever iPhone is much different from the ones you see today. In the beginning, it didn't have an app store and the screen was much smaller than what it is today which has been tweaked over time.

1.3 Competitors

Before the creation of the iPhone, there weren't many ideas like it that made this product stand out. Most phones had a huge keyboard that covered a lot of the phone but the iPhone has a primitive touch screen with the home button. Its touch screen ability made it far advanced than other available phones out at the time. When the iPhone first came out in 2007 the main competing brands for phones were the blackberry 8800, Samsung blackjack, and the Treo 700p. Every single one of these brands had half of the phone is a keyboard and the other half a screen. The iPhone had an edge against all these brands just because it was touch screen. It was ahead of its time compared to these other brands and it was very obvious where technology was headed towards.

The iPhone isn't what it is today and it actually had many upgrades throughout the evolution of the iPhone. While Apple was growing bigger and bigger there were other and new competing companies trying to make a better product than Apple. Companies like Samsung, google pixel, LG, Redmi, and One plus. There are many other companies still competing but those are the top competitors that run through the market. The reason there is still competing against the iPhone is because of the price, although you're not getting the same value and the iPhone can provide.

Samsung is the top competitor to the iPhone because it has a huge marketing platform and also sells similar products which can sway the public audience to make a change. They make things like the Galaxy Note and the Tablet series which is similar to the Ipad that Apple sells. Having a strong competitor makes a business a little bit harder but it makes for better competition. Samsung has pushed their product and has competed for many years and one big competition has been the camera quality. It almost seems that Apple adds a new camera every single time they release a new phone. Although a camera seems like a small part of marketing it is actually one of the biggest marketing for Apple. It can have a huge sway on the audience based off the camera quality because it can reach a huge photographic audience.

1.4 iPhone evolution

The evolution of the iPhone is still ongoing and it had made it to the iPhone 13. The iPhone started in 2007 when the first-ever iPhone was released.

The iPhone- June 29, 2007

iPhone 3G- July 11, 2008

iPhone 4- June 24, 2010

iPhone 5- September 21, 2012

iPhone 6 and 6 plus - September 19, 2014

iPhone SE- March 31, 2016

iPhone 7 and 7 plus- September 16, 2016

iPhone 8 and 8 plus- September 17, 2017

iPhone X- November 3, 2017

iPhone 11- September 20, 2019

iPhone 12- October 23, 2020

iPhone 13- Fall 2021

The iPhone itself will sell for decades and its partnerships have helped it create and evolve its company. There are also many variations of the Ipad and the Ipods which can be used as alternatives to the iPhone. One huge evolution to Apple was the introduction to the Apple watch. The Apple Watch was first introduced in 2015 and the great thing that the apple watch had is that it could pair with your phone. It's able to access phone calls and receive text messages directly on the apple watch. They also made changes to better the Apple watch as well like they made it waterproof which was one of its biggest upgrades.

Early use of iPhone

At the beginning of the iPhone, the usage was very limited. Although it was a huge success it had many upgrades it needed to become where it is today. The first drop of the iPhone did not include things like the app store which is a huge part of the marketing and profit. Its abilities were to call and text at any time needed by using a phone service provider with your iPhone. It had the ability to go on the internet and slowly evolved. Each new version of the iPhone was upgraded and they made changes to many parts of the iPhone. They started out with a touch screen and a home button which slowly started to evolve. It changed from a home button to a finger touch scan which allowed you to have accessed with the touch of your finger. The use for the iPhone was very basic but it has an edge over other brands. It had an edge over brands like blackberry and Samsung at the time because of the touch screen it had compared to these phones that had half keyboard.

Todays Use in society

The iPhone came a long way from a home button to a face scan Id to enter your phone. The first iPhone to incorporate the face scan ID was the iPhone X which was released in 2015 which was a part of the companies best Ideas because it's an idea that has stayed and looks like it's going to stay. It's the new idea that many other competing companies have incorporated into their own companies and Apple got the idea from other companies. The iPhone has over a billion sold and being used throughout the world today and the number will continue to grow as the company expands itself. Apple has luckily extended themselves further than just electronic gadgets but they have invested in partnerships with cell phone services that they provide for. The use of Apple is much bigger than phones but their iPhone is the trademark of their company.

References

https://timepath.co/steve-jobs

https://www.tradeschool.com/blog/steve-jobs-education-background/

https://www.businessinsider.com/first-phone-anniversary-2016-12

https://www.marketing91.com/top-11-iphone-competitors/

https://screenrant.com/iphone-apple-release-chronological-order-smartphone/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253162/iphone-users-total-number-billion-apple-tim-cook-q1-2021