and now we have wifi, where the phone's existance is nowhere to be found.......
I still remember what my mum said when handphones are bigger than our pockets, Computers could fill up a room, STOP SURFING THE NET I WANNA HAVE A CALL...etc. I believe if you are somewhere around my age you'll heard this quite too (ack now people know my age.......). Well is not been that long from all those quote exists above but now you rarely heard these right? What happened between these years in between?
Regarding this question, our beloved lecturer had gave us this interesting website for us
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/tech/article/the-pc-is-dead-long-live-the-tablet/
buried by tablet
-Ahem- Before bashing on how retarded is the title of the topic in that website for those pc fans, lets us focus about the rise of the tablets. From the evolution of pc to tablets it did not take a lot of years and is not attractive to the consumer before Apple's iPad exists.
I dunno why but seems like the meta of the technologies is to make things smaller.....
Apple's Ipad is a good example about the process of innovation to tablets. As most of the readers would know what is iPad and what iPad does, it will be easier to understand this topic. Now, before this iPad came to the world, Apple is having a great pressure from Windows, which own almost 90% of the computers in the world, unlike Apple's Mac, which only favorable to certain small consumers. With this pressure continues no doubt it will affect Apple and Apple won't want this getting worst. They need to come out with something that can catch the eyes of consumer away from windows. But that time it seems quite hard as Window's OS is so famous to the community and even a 6 years old kid would know about it. To be short Window's reputation on computers is deep enough and almost impossible to beat them without a whole loads of miracles.
So while Mr. Steve is sitting under a tree scratching his head hard just to figure a solution for this, to attract the world about Apple. Suddenly a nokia 3310 fall off his head. He picked it up, wondering the heck this 3310 came from. And then he was bored and decided to play with the 3310. Well you know, 3310 is very old, there's nothing much you can do there. Their games are boring, menu is dull.Other than being a indestructable killing object it just good enough to do its job as a "handphone". So he thinks, and regrets why he did not bring a walkman out to get rid of this boringness, he should have brought himself a novel or gameboy etc so that he wouldn't have to sit under this tree doing nothing.
He look back that Nokia 3310 again, and related everything he was thinking just now
and iphone is born.btw things above is fictional okay
We couldn't say that iPhone is an invention as it's main idea is basicly a handphone. A multifunctional handphone that can play interesting games, tons of fun apps, internet, ebooks etc.Without losing it's main function as a handphone. Of course, during that time there's still handphones that actually can fulfill exactly what iPhone can do for the community, and during that time when Nokia is still one of the main cooperation of handphone that majority of the world is using it. But what attracts the community to iPhone is morelikely due to its design that keeps everything simple and a great place for sharing and distributing interesting apps so that everyone can always be busy with their iPhone either gaming, internet, music facebooking and many more. The fun and creativity in iPhone is unbeatable by any other phones.
But no matter how epic is an iPhone, it will forever remain as a phone. It could not turn into a gaming gear which will attract gamers into it. It also could not attract those computer nerds to get one of these because they are nerds they only need a super computer and will have this mindset of a phone will forever remain as a phone. Thus even iphone is sucessful but greedy Apple is still not satisfied with the results.Later on they focus on the mobility of a computer that can outdone laptop and remains the advantage of iPhone to produce iPad. Which literally beats all of the tablets in the world.
is a good thing but seriously it's getting annoying Apple.....
Before I getting more and more off topic, just wanna conclude that the process of innovation and invention is always behind a people which wants to change something. As the community is getting busier the innovation of technologies are also aimed to have more mobility and functions on the go. Is the community decides the innovation. I'll end this for now but one last thing before I stop.
things getting fragile too after tons of innovation, oh god why ;/