What's guys, it's Cody here, and in since 2017
marks the 10th anniversary for the
iPhone, in this video I want to go over
the top ten crazy facts that you
probably didn't know about the iPhone.
Of course I'm going to save the best for last.
So, let's go ahead and jump right into it.
So before the iPhone even went on sale, Apple
was looking for a partner to sell their
iPhone through, exclusively, at launch.
So Apple reached out to Verizon Wireless,
which at the time was one of the most
highly regarded and largest carriers in
the US. And Verizon took a look around, saw the iPhone
and thought to themselves, "You know what? This deal that Apple trying to pull
right here is not for us. We're going to take a hard pass."
Now how much you guys want to bet they're
still regretting that right now?
So instead of Apple getting all upset that Verizon wouldn't
partner with them, what they did is they
looked for another one and they reached
out to Cingular, which is now AT&T. And at
the time Cingular really needed an
exclusive smartphone in order to stay
competitive. Now Apple's terms were
somewhat stringent: one of those things
being that they didn't want the carrier
logo on the iPhone. All they wanted was the Apple logo.
But, Cingular was like,
"Hey, I'm all about it.
Let's do this. We need to stay
competitive. Let's put the iPhone on this
carrier, and let's just see where it takes us."
And the rest is history guys.
I mean this was an awesome move for
Cingular; they got exclusive rights to
sell the iPhone on Cingular, and they
made a ton of money. So looking back,
solid choice Cingular.
So in July of 2016,
Apple sold its 1 billionth iPhone.
Now, if you guys didn't bat an eye at that, and you're just like,
"Oh, yeah, 1,000,000,000 iPhones, that's pretty cool,"
think about how big that number is.
1 billion. Just to kind of grasp that
concept, let's think about if you were
going to count to a billion. On average,
let's say you counted one number every
single second. How long do you think
it'd take you to count to a billion? You
think it'd take a year? Five years?
Ten years? Try 32 years. To count to a billion.
To count to a billion, it'd take 32 years.
And that's only if you count non-stop.
You don't sleep, you don't eat, you have no fun.
You're going to die counting to a billion.
If you want to count to a billion,
you better start now. Now think of a
billion iPhones, and think of how much
the average iPhone costs. Probably
somewhere between 650 bucks to $700.
So, yeah. That's a lot of dough.
Not to mention that number is growing
every single day, because that was back
in July 2016, so they've sold...
I don't even know how many since then. A lot.
Now, my very first Apple product was
the iPhone 4. So let me know what your
very first Apple product was in the
comments below, because I want to check
that out. But since my first iPhone was
the iPhone 4 I didn't run into this next
issue. And that was the very first iPhone,
when it was launched, you could not
install third-party applications. So in
this day and age, that's like blasphemy.
But at the time, the iPhone was brand-new.
Everybody was just really giddy about
just having the iPhone and what the iPhone
could do in its own original form with
the stock applications that it had. It was
just really cool - revolutionary, even - and
third-party applications was an
afterthought at the time. It wasn't until
iOS 2.0.1 before the App Store was released,
and you could actually start to download
third-party applications.
Now the very first iPhone actually almost sported a
curved glass display. Of course you're
going through R&D, a lot of designs are
thrown around just to, you know, try out and
just see what works, and what's the most
practical design. And the curved glass
display was actually something that
Apple was heavily, heavily looking into
but they ended up having to toss the
idea out the window once they realized
that the curved glass display was
actually going to be too
cost-prohibitive at the time. And I'll put up
a picture right here so you guys can
see what the iPhone prototype looked
like with that curved glass. This photo
was actually released during that Apple
and Samsung trial in 2012.
Now, have you guys ever noticed during iPhone
ads that the clock is always at the
exact same time? It's always at 9:41. Go to
the Apple channel and check out the
iPhone clock on those advertisements.
They're always at 9:41. You think that's a
coincidence?
Absolutely not. There is a reason behind
that. Scott Forstall once explained, and I
quote, "We design the product launch
keynotes so that's a big reveal of the product
happens around 40 minutes into the
presentation. When the big image of the
product appears on the screen, we want
the time shown to be close to the actual
time on the audience's watch. But of
course, we won't hit 40 minutes exactly."
So the next product launch or the next
iPhone commercial that you see, check the
time. You're going to see 9:41.
Next, let's talk about the components of the iPhone.
What do you think the most expensive
component in the iPhone 7 is? The display.
So how much do you think that display costs?
Well for the iPhone 7, it's actually
about $45. And that's the most expensive
component on the entire device. Now, if you're
talking about like an iPhone 7 Plus, then
it's going to be a little bit higher and
closer to about $52. Now, the next most
expensive component is the wireless chip,
but all that brings me to my next fact.
You're probably asking yourself, "Well, if
the most expensive component of the
iPhone 7 is $45, how much does it cost to
actually build an iPhone 7, if we're just
talking about parts?"
Well... it's about $219.
That's pretty cheap.
Now of course Apple deserves its profits, and
it doesn't take into consideration
R&D, design, or assembling the iPhone,
but at the same time... 219 bucks. So...
So the very first iPhone team was elite and
top-secret, so Steve Jobs actually tasked
Scott Forstall
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of building that team. And he really
could do whatever he wanted, except there
was one rule: you could not hire anybody
outside of Apple. So what did Scott
Forstall do? He went around to engineers - the
very top engineers in Apple - didn't
matter what division that they were in - and
asked them if they wanted to be part of
something big.
Now, again, this project was top secret,
so even when he was interviewing the
engineers and recruiting them, he
couldn't even tell them what project
they were going to be working on. Basically,
all he could say was, "You're going to have
to give up your weekends, and you're
gonna have to work nights a lot." And
the engineers that took that chance ended up
creating what was at the time, and
probably still arguably the best phone
on the market. Definitely still the best
on the market in my opinion, probably a
lot of you guys too. Now I'm bringing up Scott
Forstall a lot, and you guys might not
even know who that is or never heard
that name before, and he was actually a
major part of getting the iPhone off it's
feet, and getting it a successful launch.
But Tim Cook actually fired him and
here's the reason why.
So as you guys know, Steve Jobs was rumored to be pretty
difficult to work with, and the same
thing can be said about Scott Forstall.
But not only that. That wasn't the main
deciding factor of why Tim Cook fired Scott
Forstall. There's actually some pretty
good reasons here. Now Scott Forstall was
responsible for iOS, and there were a few
features in iOS that had a pretty
terrible launch. You guys wanna guess
what those things were? Well first it was
Apple Maps. Now not only was it a
terrible launch and it just didn't work
very well, it basically plagued the entire
application itself still to this day. You
still hear about people complaining
about Apple Maps. I'll still complain
about Apple maps because I used it like
a year ago, and it literally took me to the, like,
I was like six miles away from my
destination and I had the correct address.
I mean that's all the Apple maps
supposed to do, right? It's GPS. Like, take
me to this place.
That's all you gotta do.
If you can't take me to the right location, I'm
not going to use you, right? Right. So I've
been using Google Maps pretty much ever
since Google Maps was a thing, just
because Apple Maps never worked for me. Now,
the second thing with a terrible launch
and almost I would still say pretty
useless in 90% of the cases
in which I try to use it.
That is Siri. So Scott Forstall demoed
Siri at the event and it worked
flawlessly. He asked it all the correct
questions and it responded intuitively.
But then once users actually got in their
hands and tried to use it...
Same thing with Apple Maps.
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Miserableness ensued. And last but not least, the
release of iOS 5 and iOS 6 just wasn't
all that great.
They still used the old skeuomorphism look
and it just looked dated. I mean that's
why you saw such a huge change iOS 7,
from that old, 3D, skeuomorphism look
with the wood and everything, to this
flat, very colorful, and vibrant iOS 7. So iOS 7 came
after Tim Cook fired Scott Forstall. That's
where you saw that massive change. So while we
owe a lot to Scott Forstall in the
initial release of the iPhone and iOS, he
really screwed the pooch on the later
versions of iOS that basically still
plague iOS to this day.
And last but not least, the iPhone was born out of
something that wasn't supposed to be a
phone at all. So Steve Jobs back in the
day actually told the engineering team
that you wanted a tablet with a virtual
keyboard, and when that engineering team
came back to Jobs with a device with
multi-touch functionality, Jobs thought,
"Well, we can apply the technology to a phone."
Just as Jobs said to Walt Mossberg
in an interview, he said that's when
Apple, quote-unquote, "put aside the tablet,
and we went to work on the phone." And
thank God that they did, because it is
turned into something that is amazing,
and I am just happy to be a part of the
Apple community, and being able to enjoy
Apple products 10 years later. Now
granted, I do make fun of Apple a lot and
I'm going to continue to do so just because
sometimes I don't agree with the
decisions that they make, and I think you
guys like to hear my opinion, or you
wouldn't be watching my videos. So while
I will give Apple hard time sometimes, I
still love their products and I don't
see that changing anytime soon.
Alright guys, that's all I got for this
video. I hope you guys enjoyed it and
hopefully you learned a thing or two
about Apple in the process.
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