iPhone. Quite possibly the best innovation to happen to the mobile industry since the invention of the smart phone. With the iPhone came the App Store, and developers swarmed over it’s SDK, and created over 140,000 apps in less than two years. That’s more than the Blackberry and Android markets combined!
Before the iPhone, mobile markets were a mess. The apps were horrible and ugly, and there were fears of getting viruses from a downloaded app. The App Store gave iPhone users a unified market where they could safely buy their apps, which have all been tested by Apple Staff. Testing the apps before letting them hit the market ensured that every app ran properly, performed its function, and did not compromise the users’s privacy or security.
Mobile development is an industry that I would like to have a career in, and I have already taken a step towards that career: I made an iPhone app that is currently in the App Store. I hope to make more apps to build up my portfolio and gain necessary programming experience.
When Steve Jobs announced the iPad, it changed everything. Before the iPad, developers only had to design apps for one platform, one screen size. Now, we developers have to redesign our user interfaces and use new UI elements and controls to take advantage of the extended screen real estate.
Apple is constantly innovating: two years after announcing the original iPhone, they announced the iPhone 3G, a new incremental improvement that meant a faster phone and a much faster data network. The iPad is a game-changer to the mobile market, shaping the industry in a new way. It creates the bridge between the iPhone and the MacBook Pros and iMacs. Developers will have to change their design paradigms when moving from iPhone to iPad, just like they did when they transitioned from Mac to iPhone.
I hope one day to work for a company in Silicon Valley, making iPhone apps or iPad apps or i-whatever apps. Whatever Apple can cook up for us developers and consumers, I can’t wait to make programs for it.
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i wish i knew you and had an iphone when i took calculus.