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The Effect of the Apple iPhone on the World. By: Don Palmigiano. Here It is!. Connection to Geography. However indirect it may be, the iPhone plays an important role in geography Geography greatly influences the units production
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The Effect of the Apple iPhone on the World By: Don Palmigiano
Connection to Geography • However indirect it may be, the iPhone plays an important role in geography • Geography greatly influences the units production • Its connection to the World’s economy dictates the labor force in Taiwan • Cell phones allow people to live in certain areas, and where people go they affect geography
First off: What is it? • The Apple iPhone is/has a: • multimedia/Internet-Enabled Phone • Multi-touch (Revolutionary New UI) • Allows for multiple points of contact on the touch screen • mobile telephone • camera • multimedia player • e-mail • text messaging • web browsing • and wireless connectivity Take a guess… Does anyone know? No? How does iPhone do all of this? Really, no one knows? Fine I’ll stop asking questions.
Your life in your pocket The ultimate digital device
What makes it so revolutionary? • Multi-touch (one of 200+ patents made specifically for this device)
Smartphone Phone + E-mail + Internet Qwerty Keyboard
smart iPhone hard to use easy to use E62 Treo Moto Q Cell Phones not so smart
What is wrong with these phones? Buttons & controls can’t change Blackberry Moto Q Treo Nokia E62
What Makes iPhone Economically Important? • 10,000,000 phones by June 2008… • Apple estimates that the popularity of their product will generate this kind of revenue • 1% of the cell phone market • Huge profits- $5,500,000,000 • Apple controls 63% of mp3 market
Extras!!! • Watch the Keynote for Macworld 2007, if you are interested. • Check out what I have to say at iPhonenotify.com. • Go to Today in iPhone to hear how my interview (yes I was interviewed) went. Today in iPhone • Talk to me more about it!!
Questions? • There’s a lot I didn’t talk about, allow me to fill you in. Just ask me your question. • Price • Rumors • Speculation • Why iPhone? • Anything Bring on the questions.