imran chaudhri came up with the idea of the iphone.
who came up with the idea of the iphone?
imran chaudhri
chaudhri was a member of the original six-person iphone design team. he previously led the design for dashboard on the mac, which was full of widgets that would be ideal for the phone. his early idea for the phone was "all about having these widgets in your pocket." the iphone's rectilinear app icon design also came from chaudhri. after much experimentation, chaudhri came up with the grid of apps as a way to organize the iphone's functions, which came to be called springboard. he had the industrial design team make a few wooden iphone mockups to figure out the optimal size of the icons for a finger's touch. he is credited as the sole inventor of the jiggling effect during user interface reconfiguration mode. chaudhri and ording originally built the iphone's user interface using adobe photoshop and director. chaudhri likened it to "building a frank gehry piece out of aluminum foil," calling it "the biggest hack of all time." prior to working on a finger-controlled touchscreen for the iphone, they initially built a crude mock-up to show that a finger-controlled tablet would work, as well as an "ipod-plus-phone that could create text messages with a predictive text system." chaudhri was among those named on apple's patent as an inventor. chaudhri and designer freddy anzures had been working on the unlock concept for iphone to prevent accidental activations. while on an airplane and observing how the bathroom stall had a slide to lock/unlock feature, anzures thought to apply that concept to the touchscreen. chaudhri tested a prototype with his baby daughter. when she was able to slide to unlock, he knew the feature would be universal. chaudhri is credited as one of the inventors on the patent granted to apple for the slide to unlock gesture. according to merchant, the touch-based phone, which was originally supposed to be nothing but screen, was going to need at least one button, and steve jobs was convinced that, in addition to the home button, the iphone would also need a back button for navigation. chaudhri convinced jobs otherwise, arguing that, in order to generate "trust and predictability" there must simply be "one button that does the same thing every time you press it: it shows you your stuff."
imran chaudhri
apple has released twelve generations of iphone models, each accompanied by one of the twelve major releases of the ios operating system. the first-generation iphone was a gsm phone and established design precedents, such as a button placement that has persisted throughout all releases and a screen size maintained for the next four iterations. the iphone 3g added 3g network support, and was followed by the iphone 3gs with improved hardware, the iphone 4 with a metal chassis, higher display resolution and front-facing camera, and the iphone 4s with improved hardware and the voice assistant siri. the iphone 5 featured a taller, 4-inch display and apple's newly introduced lightning connector. in 2013, apple released the iphone 5s with improved hardware and a fingerprint reader, and the lower-cost iphone 5c, a version of the 5 with colored plastic casings instead of metal. they were followed by the larger iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus, with models featuring displays. the iphone 6s was introduced the following year, which featured hardware upgrades and support for pressure-sensitive touch inputs, as well as the iphone se—which featured hardware from the 6s but the smaller form factor of the 5s. in 2016, apple unveiled the iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus, which add water resistance, improved system and graphics performance, a new rear dual-camera setup on the plus model, and new color options, while removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack found on previous models. the iphone 8 and iphone 8 plus were released in 2017, adding a glass back and an improved screen and camera. the iphone x was released alongside the iphone 8 and iphone 8 plus, with its highlights being a near bezel-less design, an improved camera and a new facial recognition system, named face id, but having no home button, and therefore, no touch id. in september 2018, apple again released 3 new iphones, which are the iphone xs, an upgraded version of the since discontinued iphone x, iphone xs max, a larger variant with the series' biggest display and iphone xr, a lower end version of the iphone x.
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