Apple + Smartphones

The iPhone was released in ___________; the first Android device was released in _____________. (Enter answers as four-digit numerical years only, i.e. 2016)

(2007, 2008)

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 details

- 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

Major pre-iPhone smartphones in US

- Sidekick - Blackberry - Windowsmobile

Three V's

- Volume (amount of data) - Velocity (speed of data in and out) - Variety (range of data types and sources)

Apple's 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 details

- huge success - could display color graphics

Apple's 4 core product lines are the

- iPod portable media - iPad tablet - iPhone smartphone - Macintosh computers

Details about 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 (# of people on smartphones equaling # people online)

Retina Display, Apple's marketing term for high resolution displays, actually refers to several different specific resolutions (PPI), which vary depending on device type. This is because:

A resolution high enough that a human eye can't distinguish individual pixels, human eye can discern less detail on object that are farther away & different devices are used at different distances from the eye (iPhone v Mac)

Which of these people were not in the founding group of Apple's creators? A) Tim Cook B) Steve Jobs C) Steve Wozniak D) Ronald Wayne

A) Tim Cook

Which of the following is not true of the original Macintosh? A) Was introduced in 1983 B) first mass-market computer to use a GUI C) first mass-market computer to be mouse-based

A) Was introduced in 1983

Apple was founded on ______ and was originally called _______.

April 1, 1976 - Apple Computer Inc.

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

As of June 2015, Apple was the ________ publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization (estimated value of $695 billion - Feb 2017)

Largest

The ___________ computer was the very expensive precursor to the Mac

Lisa

developed in 1983; first personal computers to offer graphic user interface (GUI); aimed at individual business users

Lisa

City that served as Apple's first international retail store location

Tokyo

Android names its IOS (versions of its operating system) after

alphabetically-organized desserts

Current smartphone operating systems

iOS, Android

What iconic apple product has bolstered their public image and created the most revenue for Apple thus far?

iPhone

Was launched April 2003 with 2 million downloads in the first 16 days

iTunes

Android is in many ways an _____ ____ ______ ______, but because of its deep integration with Google's services (Gmail, Maps, etc.), it's become effectively less open over time

open source operating system

The first Android phone,_____ was released a bit over a year after the iPhone, on October 22, 2008

the T-Mobile G1

Big data

data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate

largest manufacturer of android

Samsung

What was the first company to implement a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in a commercially available consumer machine?

Apple

Which of the following companies began manufacturing smartphones last?

Apple

Which apple computer was not very successful? and which carried the company for a while?

Apple 3; Apple 2

What was Apple's first product?

Apple I

Apple line

Apple I: first computer Apple created Apple II: highly successful, carried company for many years Apple III: not great

Which product was created at the peak of Apple's success?

Apple II

The _______ ______, one of the early models of the Apple computer, failed because it didn't include a fan and was prone to overheating

Apple III

_______ introduced in 2001 against industry concerns

Apple Store

Based on the article, "History of Apple Inc." what were the primary reasons for opening Apple retail stores?

Apple needed to stop declining market share and poor marketing from third party retailers

year Android was released

September 23, 2008

Competitors dismissed iPhone as an expensive bauble (______ _______) or, even, as something of a hoax (BlackBerry)

Steve Ballmer at Microsoft

Who founded Apple?

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

The Apple II was one of the _______ ___________ computers credited with creating the home computer market

1977 Trinity

What year was Mac released?

1984

Andy Rubin then became an apple engineer until

2005

iOS vs Android

Android devices dominate smartphone market in terms of market share, but iOS dominate profit share

Android creator

Andy Rubin (who also created Danger -- company behind sidekick)

Who created Android and when was it acquired by Google?

Andy Rubin, 2005

Which of the following was NOT radical new feature of the original iPhone at the time of its introduction?

Copy and paste for text

The Apple store location that is the largest store in the world

Covent Garden

Where is apple inc. headquartered?

Cupertino, CA

Apple released iMessage in 2012, allowing users to A) Send audio, video, text, and photo message without paying messaging fees B) Share location information in messages C) Send end-to-end encrypted message D) All of the above

D) All of the above

Modern smartphone operating systems include all of the following except: A) iOS B) Android C) Symbian/Windows phone D) webOS

D) webOS

Which of the following wasn't a core innovation of the original iTunes Music store?

DRM (digital rights management)-free music

_____- providers offer computing infrastructure

IaaS

Service models

IaaS: Infrastructure as a service Paas: Platform as a service Saas: Software as a service

T/F Apple created the first MP3 with the release of the iPod in the mid-2000s

False

Since its inception, Apple had prided itself on making the "whole widget," integrating:

Hardware and software

According to Steve Jobs, "Design is not just what something looks like and feels like, it's..."

How it works

______ in ______ and ______ in _______ established apple as leader in consumer electronics and media sales industry

IPod in 2001; iTunes in 2003

Who was depicted in Apple's original logo?

Isaac Newton

When was the first iPhone announced/introduced?

January 9, 2007

where smartphones first had adoption

Japan

Smartphones (though not in their current, full-fledged computer, touchscreen form) found their first wide-spread adoption ____ in ____accumulating ____ million smartphone subscribers by ____

Japan - 1999; 40 -- 2001

Jobs's Leave

Job left Apple in 1985 and returned in 1997 when Apple purchased his company NeXT and began using this technology as the basis for Mac computers

When was the first iPhone actually launched?

June 29, 2007

The was the first Android phone that was successful at a mass-market level

Motorola droid

When Steve Jobs left Apple, he created the ________ ___________ which is historically significant because 1) Sir Tim Burners Lee created the World Wide Web on a NeXT computer 2) The computer's operating system served as the foundation for what would eventually be iOS

NeXT computer

created by jobs after being ousted from apple in 1985; bought by apple in 1995 and prompted Job's return

NeXT computers

For a long time, it was iPhone __, not iOS (the release of the iPad in 2010 largely led to this change.)

OS

Which is the newest Os for Apple's Macintosh?

OS X El Capitan

_____- providers deliver computing platforms including OS, programming language execution environment, database

PaaS

were important forerunners of modern smartphones

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)

Which company made Steve Jobs a billionaire?

Pixar

"on demand software" where users gain access to application software and databases

SaaS

Three largest manufacturers of smartphones are

Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi

iOS vs Android UI progression

While iOS underwent mostly gradual visual changes (with the dramatic exception of iOS 7's new aesthetic), the Android UI has radically shifted multiple times, though it's now settled down into Google's Material Design look

Which of the following isn't true of the original Macintosh? a. Was one of the first products to be promoted by an expensive Super Bowl commercial b. Was the first mass-market computer to use a GUI c. Was released in 1982 d. Was the first mass-market computer to be mouse-based

c. Was released in 1982 was actually released in 1984)

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