there's a phone sitting on the desk that
perhaps looks a little old um i never
had the first iphone that came out 10
years ago today um it's june 29th but i
did get the iphone
3g the next year the i the original item
didn't really come out in the uk until
october and this one came out pretty
quickly afterwards in the next june so
um
yeah i just thought we'd talk about
the iphone and in fact for something
slightly different sean is filming this
one
on
my iphone so i'm actually shooting this
on the iphone 7 plus give us a way for
sean
there we go excellent
we could go into lots of detail about
how the iphone is the greatest mobile
phone in the trends it's set um there's
plenty of other people producing videos
like you can get interviews with people
apple who involved in creating it um i
think the
the fascinating thing for me two things
this is purely personal
um it was a huge difference when it came
out um
in 2005 i bought this
so it was a
a mobile phone
and an ipad unfortunately it doesn't
work anymore
if i drop it into its charging cradle i
think the battery is gone it'll get as
far as booting
halfway through the instruction thing
and it'll um
just dice
so i bought this in 2005 it was an ipad
and it was great in some ways so it was
a touch screen
with a resistive so you could tap it and
you could use it for making notes it
would run word
um sorry yeah it's just a slight problem
with the iphone is that the black light
is making you turn into a silhouette and
that's how you you're uh yeah the atari
is is flickering like nobody's but
that's okay i'll just keep that right
yeah
so um it worked sort of
quite well
um
but it had a few things it was it wasn't
smooth though um
it would suddenly drop the 3g connection
or i don't think it was 3g are coming
out
and literally you'd be sitting there
waiting for a phone call and your phone
completely discounted from the network
and it never arrived so it was annoying
things and actually so you you could get
devices before the iphone that did some
of the features but they just weren't as
smooth and actually most of the time i
went back to a sort of
classic
star trek beam me up scotty style
motorola pretty soon afterwards and
actually apple had
worked with motorola on an itunes
compatible variant of this the motorola
rocker
which was
an unmitigated disaster i think is the
phrase that's best used this is a phone
that we have worked on with motorola so
actually when this came along
it was
in many ways evolution i think it was
just the fact that it just
was so easy to use the sort of
touch screen the multi-channel zone you
could get on and it really was
revolutionary i think and of course it
influenced how
android designed their phones and so on
so it's sort of changing and of course
it's interesting now
that for a lot of people they don't use
normal computers they just use a mobile
phone like an iphone or an android phone
uh perhaps coupled with a tablet like an
ipad
as their day-to-day computer device so
it has it's it's
in many ways it was as much a step
from
what computers were like
before the macintosh to what they were
like after the macintosh so before the
microscopy had something like the apple
ii of pcs at the time to the macintosh
where you had a full sort of gui and we
looked at the macintosh a couple of
years ago when it was its 30th
anniversary
so you sort of i think it has created
the c change in the way we use computers
i don't think
the vast majority of people are going to
be using desktop or laptop computers
we will still have them people still use
them for certain tasks gaming perhaps um
although these qualifying consoles may
get better at that who knows phones
whatever um certainly development
probably want to do it on that although
i'm starting to get ids that are even
better
on that so who knows maybe we'll just be
talking to computers all the time like
in star trek
um one one thing that i think is also
quite important is it is obviously the
interface it was was revolutionary you
know this idea of touch people didn't
use to or didn't have big screens and
things like this yeah i mean it was
interesting the sort of the multi-touch
display
was around you could see i think it was
jeff han had a video that came out early
2006 you had the microsoft surface
back where microsoft surface made an
actual table service that took up the
size of the room turning friends on to
new music will one day be done with the
greatest of ease the idea was there but
suddenly you went from
large displays
the sort of installation type things to
something you fitted in your pocket and
i think that was again how they did how
they managed that and actually sort of
realizing that that created an interface
that was just so usable
was sort of um fascinating the other
thing i found fascinating in terms of
its family tree and obviously you've got
the apple sort of line feeding in it
runs mac os x or a variant of it which
comes from the mag and comes from next
and so on
but it was all designed around
the arm chip so it's actually powered by
an arm chip which is not unusual for a
mobile phone or the ipod
but of course that comes from the acorn
line of things so
this is a an old acorn 3000 and this
is the probably great great great grand
sommelier the granddaddy of the
processor in a modern
mobile phone this was the original arm 2
chip which powered things like this or
the original archimedes so i can sort of
see
lots of different lines of technology
sort of merging to form this one
device we've got i would say one device
but that was the one that sort of
crystallized and from that you've got
the android phones your windows phone
i'm sure someone still uses them um and
so on and it really was different from
having devices with keyboards or limited
interactivity you could actually view a
web page on this which you couldn't
really do before even on something
like the ipac it wasn't apple's first
stab at having some kind of organizer in
your pocket well yeah so apple had in
the 90s they created the
newton this is the original model i
didn't have one at the time
i sort of picked one up later
which again
you could actually sort of
use to take notes it didn't have an
internet connectivity although it did
have an ir port so you could sort of
stick your mobile phone if it had an ir
port and get online that way but the
interesting thing about this
um is that you could actually
write on it
and so in the sort of classic thing
let's create a new note file this note
in
putting business
this was uh shawn trying it the other
day um
print note facts beam mail delete that's
probably the best thing we want to do
my important note you've just got
absolutely
so in the classic thing we just want to
sort of take a note so in the classic um
one
we want to beat
up
martin
and just like in the symptoms it doesn't
come out with the right
answer take a member on your newton beat
up martin
so we actually got martin this time
rather than eat up martha so yeah apple
had done this before and actually this
again was probably for its time
a revolutionary
device but it just wasn't quite ready
the handwriting recognition wasn't quite
good and of course it's still it's file
effect style
rather than sort of slip it in your
pocket
and use it so yeah i think it's
everything came together and
we history's shown how it's changed
everything
running there so yeah and of course the
cameras aren't getting better and so we
can even film computer file
on a mobile phone now
so what we've got here it's another
zylogix disk controller of some sort
you've got the control chips in the