Today we are experiencing high advanced technological world where mobile operating systems are on their peak. Last five years have being truly amazing with so much unique and creative ideas emerged in the whole world of smartphone which basically started with Apple introducing their breath taking iOS with Iphone. Thanks for Steve Jobs who made this come true. It was revolutionary as he mentioned in key notes while he was introducing first Apple Iphone in 2007. He made a boost in the smart phone industry and still we are in that boost.
Apple ideas were always different from the hardware and software developers. Their image was not to just sell their product but to make innovations so that they can file their patents to be the big foot in the market. It started with the introduction of Macintosh which had first revolutionary mouse. Yup the mouse which we use today is a revolution made by Apple Inc and today we see mouse in all computers and laptops. It was a Steve Job idea and all thanks go to him. At first Apple entered to smartphone market very silently but it was a huge blow in the market. Back in those days we do not have smart phones like we have today. All we can remember is we had smart phones like HP ipaq and that was the situation at that stage.
Apple introduced Iphone in 2007 which brought so much changes in the history of smart phones. It was first time that anything had what we called ‘Multi-Touch’. That’s right, it is a copyright of Apple and they introduced it with Apple’s Iphone. It also had an OS called iOS which was so advanced compare to those days operating systems and it was like an alien technology because no one ever had expected such kind of advance device at that stage. By introducing Iphone, Steve Jobs made it straight clear that no one are ahead of them until few years ahead to compete them. It is called high skilled engineering and it made them the leading company of the World till today. It also brought so much competition in the market which led to born Android, Web OS, Windows Phone 7.
When we look at our current situation of smart phone industry we are again loosing the high skilled engineering. Today again we are unable to see those kind of works. Lets look into Apple devices today. They have introduced Iphone 5 and iOS 6. Iphone 5 is made of 4inch display. Of course anyone can make their phone size to different sizes and it’s simple and when we look into iOS 6 we find lot of sad news. We all might think iOS 6 have brought so much advancement but it’s not at all true. Those advancements were already existed in iOS 5. Developers made almost all of those for free with iOS 5 but still Apple integrated all those with Apple design in iOS 6 which makes it heavier and bulky. They also removed Google Maps in iOS 6 and replaced it with Apple Maps which make them few years back in the development of smart phones.
Apple Maps is not completely finished project as far we have experience and it lacks tonnes of information and settings compare to Google Maps and it is not accurate. More than that we will not be able to find road information and other stuffs in it. Therefore it is really a wrong move in today’s market where Microsoft also started taking cuts. As far i am concerned that Apple needs their iOS be smarter rather than fighting for an app for maps. If people lost the interest in iOS it will drop down Apple smart phone industry which Steve Jobs introduced. Because as far i know, people love Iphone for not only it shape or size but it’s OS. If it features becomes limited it will effect the users. Today we are seeing one of it. Dropping Google Maps means all people using Iphone for navigation purpose might drop Apple. Therefore they really need to re-thing of their decisions.
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