NMIX 2020: Topics and Case Studies Group 1 (Apple, Smartphones, The Cloud + Big Data)
Android Overview
- Created by Andy Rubin - Standalone company until acquired by Google in 2005 - Originally keyboard-focused platform - OS releases named after alphabetically-organized desserts - Samsung is largest manufacturer of Android phones
Original Macintosh
- First mass-market computer to use a GUI - Was first mass-market computer to be mouse-based - Was one of the first products to be promoted by an expensive Super Bowl commercial
Adoption of smartphones
- Japan in 1999 - accumulated 40 million smartphone subscribers by 2001
Three V's
- Volume (amount of data) - Velocity (speed of data in and out) - Variety (range of data types and sources)
Apple contribution to design
- brought focus on design to consumer computing devices - Apple makes "the whole widget": custom built and custom integrated hardware and software
Apple II
- huge success - could display color graphics
The Lisa
- too-expensive precursor to the Mac - bridges insights from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated which developed Ethernet, object-oriented programming) and the Mac
Today about 3 billion people are online with 2 billion of them using smartphones; by 2020, about __________ billion people will be online with about ______ billion of them using smartphones
4;4
Andy Rubin
Android creater
iOS vs Android
Android devices dominate smartphone market in terms of market share, but iOS dominate profit share
April 1, 1976
Date Apple was founded
Service models
IaaS: Infrastructure as a service Paas: Platform as a service Saas: Software as a service
Cloud computing
Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computer and other devices on demand. Model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to shared pool of resources; third-party data centers
Sidekick, Blackberry, Windows Mobile
Major pre-iPhone smartphones in US
Apple Founders
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
NeXT computer
Web created on this computer; created by Jobs after he was forced out of Apple; operating system became foundation for macOS ---> iOS
Big data
data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate
Skeuomorphism
design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts
data centers
facility used to house computer systems and associated components. Normally places that are close to water where power is cheap
According to Steve Jobs, "Design is not just what something looks like and feels like, it's _______"
how it works
Current smartphone operating systems
iOS, Android
Jan 9, 2007
introduction of iPhone
Japan
where smartphones first had adoption
September 23, 2008
year Android was released