Steve Jobs was born in 1955, an era of phones with a turntable and computers as big as rooms. He died on October 5, 2011, after he had managed computers in a phone locations and phone in the pocket of 120 million people. "
Few described the achievements of Apple founder Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011) better than journalist Jim Alley that with this opening did in the additional number that Bloomberg Business News shortly after Jobs death devoted to him.
Two billion people worldwide today smartphones with an Internet connection. By the end of this decade, there would be such that 4 billion. Just this year would be sold in China another 500 million. Smartphones are the fastest selling gadgets in history. Are four times more smartphones today are sold than PCs. Almost one in every two adults already has its own smartphone. By 2020, 80% of adults would sit around small supercomputer in their pocket.
Smartphones are becoming more efficient. Even the most basic smartphone has more computing power today than NASA had when it put a man on the moon in 1969.Smartphones are also becoming cheaper. The most popular Indian smartphone brand Micromax sells its basic model for less than $ 40 (36 euros).
Between 2009 and 2013, the mobile industry has invested $ 1,800 billion in improving the global telecoms infrastructure. The download speed is improved by a factor of 12,000, while sending data still cost a few cents per megabyte.
Smartphones have penetrated every aspect of our daily lives. The average American spends every day one or two hours; the average American teenager more. 80% of smartphone owners admits his device within 15 minutes after waking to consult.
The Apple App Store and Google Play, its equivalent for Android - which 82% of all smartphones running, against 15% for Apple - now offer more than 3 million apps. Apple sold last year for more than $ 14 billion of these apps.
The economic impact of the smartphone revolution unseen: studies show that in the emerging economies every 10 additional smart phones per 100 population increase GDP per capita by 1% - for example, by giving people access to online banking services.
The smartphone has completely changed the focus of the computer industry. Apple - Not long ago, a producer of niche desktops and laptops - was largely thanks to the iPhone, the company with the largest market capitalization worldwide. According to some of the company's quarterly profit would now be greater than that of the entire PC industry together. Xiaomi, a fast-growing Chinese smartphone maker, is today with $ 45 billion the world's highest valued start-up.
Uber is a name that everyone knows. The company is active in 55 countries; the global taxi industry has put on his head and does not even exist five years. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 and sends every day about 10 billion text messages over the global SMS system.
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