Throughout the years, the success of the iPhone has been more about industrial design. Jobs has been recognized as entrepreneur, businessman, inventor and industrial designer.
Jobs told the Macworld 2007 convention that he was announcing "three revolutionary products," the first being a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, the second being a mobile phone, and the third being an Internet communications device. However, "these are not three separate devices; this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone."
About the touchscreen controls, Scott Forstall, who led Apple's iOS operating system software division under Jobs, recounted earlier this year that Jobs started Apple's tablet computer project, which later turned out the iPad, because he personally did not like an acquaintance with Microsoft Corporation, which was developing technology of the kind; and did not like Microsoft's technology that relied on resistive touch and required a pen, or a stylus, to control.
"You don't use a stylus ... we're born with ten styluses," Jobs was quoted as saying. The solution was capacitive touch display, now a commonplace from smartphones to personal computers.
Later, according to Forstall, Jobs tasked engineers with shrinking Apple's tablet prototype down to "something small enough to fit in your pocket" when he decided that the company should make a smartphone.
It is a typical industrial design story. In the past 10 years, the iPhone might not be the first to adopt certain technologies, but it has been often packing new hardware and new features into the device in a different way.
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