A Deeper Look into the History of Apple iOS.

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Over the years mobile phones have gone from a bulky Motorola DyanaTac 8000x that was 13 inches in length, weighed 2.5 pounds and featured one application, a contact list. Today we have a number of different phones available. From touchscreen to gesture capabilities and phones with microphones allowing voice input which results in immediate action as well as the capacity to directly manipulate content. In this paper I am going to explore the growth of mobile applications and delve deeper into one of the most popular platforms on the market today, Apple’s iOS. A Brief History Of The Mobile Phone The first generation mobile phones were designed and developed by handset manufactures. Due to the amount of competition, trade secrets were guarded very closely and unless you were a developer in the inner circle you were not able to write applications for the phone. It was around this time that the first “time waster” games became available on these phones. Nokia became famous for putting the 1970 game, Snake, on their earliest devices. These early phones changed how people communicated. As popularity grew and phone prices dropped, people demanded more from their mobile gadget/apparatus. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) was developed to fulfill these demands. WAP was basically a stripped down version of HTTP, which is the basic protocol for the World Wide Web. However WAP fell short, it became frustrating for users to operate, as it was slow and hard to read on the small low-resolution screens. Users wanted more out of their devices and WAP was not fulfilling those needs. This is when traditional desktop application developers became involved. Handset manufactures realized if they wanted to continue to sell and be s... ... middle of paper ... ... Apple are endless. Works Cited "Apple - iOS 7 - Features." Apple - iOS 7 - Features. Apple. 12 Mar. 2014 . Bohn, Dieter, and Aaron Souppouris. "The Verge." The Verge. 16 Sept. 2013. The Verge. 08 Mar. 2014 . Gordon, Jen. "Mobile GUI Design - Web Designer Magazine Article." Mobile GUI Design - Web Designer Magazine Article. 22 Jan. 2010. 08 Mar. 2014 . Koetsier, John. "VentureBeat." VentureBeat. 17 July 2013. VentureBeat. 12 Mar. 2014 . Poh, Michael. "Hongkiat.com." Hongkiatcom RSS. Hongkiatcom RSS. 12 Mar. 2014 .

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