

The big difference with Android is this: Google’s operating system can be installed on countless phones of all brands, but iOS is a closed and exclusive system for Cupertino brand devices. It is a closed system that you cannot use except on Apple brand devices. It was originally released for the brand’s phone, although it has also been used for years in other company devices such as some of the iPod music players or iPad tablets (until the arrival of iPadOS). That is, iPhone Operative System or iPhone Operating System. IOS is an operating system released and used by Apple. The arrival of the iPhone 4 in June 2020 and the previous arrival of the iPad a few months later, in 2010, was one more step in what we currently know: Steve Jobs went on stage to present his new phone but also to explain that, to From that moment on, iPhone OS would definitely be called iOS. It would take several years for the operating system to launch stably and on JiPhone OS was released. In January 2007, Apple already revealed what were the first steps of iOS, an “iPhone OS” that was discussed at the Macworld Conference & Expo but without going into details. In 2009, the number was multiplied by 10,000: there were already 50,000 applications available.

It arrived in June 2008 and the iPhone began to look a bit more like what we know today, although it was bridging the gap because in 2008 there were only 500 initial applications that could be downloaded and transferred. The first iPhone arrived in 2007 seeking to revolutionize the telephony market, a phone with a 3.5-inch LCD capacitive touchscreen that allowed to connect to WiFi but also connect to headphones, had a speaker or microphone and three memory options with 4 GB, with 8 GB or with 16 GB. And ten years later, seven after the famous iPod, Apple’s first phone, the iPhone, was introduced. From that Mac until today Jobs was fired, relegated by Sculley, founded NeXT, returned to Apple as interim director in August 1997. Since this Keynote, with 2,500 people and which was the first intervention of Jobs in such a scenario, until today, many things have happened and there have been many devices that Apple has released to the market. A year earlier, Apple had gone public and in 1984 the Macintosh 128K had arrived with a spectacular advertisement that used George Orwell’s 1984 novel as inspiration.

In 1981, the Apple II (created in 1977) had become a success, had sold more than 300,000 units, and Steve Jobs became the youngest person to be a millionaire. Until then, many were the great milestones the apple company had gone through and many the devices that had changed the lives of countless people around the world. Many years after that Jobs garage in Cupertino, Apple launched its first iPhone.
