The secret of success or iPad Steve Jobs created the first successful tablet in history (Part 2)

iPad secret of success or how Steve Jobs created the first successful tablet in the history (Part 1)

Yesterday, MacRadar published a translation of the first part of the article Fred Vogelshteyna, author of the book 'Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution‘. This is the story of how Steve Jobs and his team created a device that once and forever changed the world of high technology and sets a new standard in the tablet computer market. Today - the continuation of this amazing iPad creation stories.

Where did the skeptics?

As Macintosh father, Jobs could be trusted to rethinking the PC and the right to challenge the conventional wisdom of the Tablet PC. "Jobs hated that the Macintosh did not become mainstream soon, he wanted to all and everyone went crazy with desire to get the Mac" - shared one of the familiar Jobs. "Therefore, he often thought about how to make the iPad a cult, since its appearance on the shelves."

However, reaction to the iPad in the first days and weeks of sales was cool. Many spoke about the absence of cameras and multi-tasking, that it looks like an iPhone - just four times more.

Competitors then arrived with criticism. Eric Schmidt of Google quite arrogantly commented: "I hope you will explain to me the difference between a tablet computer and a telephone overgrown?". But Gates said that "The future is a mixture of voice, pen and keyboard. iPad - a good reader, but I look at it and do not see anything that I would say: "Oh, sorry that we at Microsoft did not think about."

Most criticism concerned that question that Jobs, oddly enough, has said in the presentation, such as: "Why do I need the iPad?".

Skeptical response from the public has a simple explanation. Nobody saw this devaysa before and, of course, many are not in a hurry to buy it in the first few months. At that time, as the phone and the laptop needed people just unconsciously, because they - were all, the plates were those which they would not so much.

Even those who worked on the iPad at the Apple team, initially doubted it. Apple's former engineer, Jeremy Wild, who worked on the software for the iPad and iPhone, shares his memories: "I remember when I first saw him, immediately thought - this is a waste of time, If we are honest. It seemed to me that this thing looks ridiculous. "

Looking at the iPad, iPhone Wilde saw a huge size, which has not got into any pocket. "I've noticed that when you do things more - to people they do not like." Wilde saw in the iPad iPhone-overgrown because they worked on the same OS, and both had a touch screen, but in the end - in front of him was an entirely new kind of technology.

You would never trade the smart phone on the iPad, but most likely, you can exchange it with her laptop. The fact that he looked like a big iPhone, no doubt caused a desire to criticize the iPad in the dust, but over time it became clear that the big screen was exactly what made the iPad special.

The importance of the size of the screen it seemed obvious to Joe Hewitt - the one who created the Facebook app for iPhone in 2007 and helped to create the Firefox web browser in 2002. Immediately after the release of iPad, he wrote in a blog post of about 900 words, the basic idea of ​​which was that the iPad - the most important thing in the history of Apple. Although the year before Hewitt was furious because of the strict App Store policies, experience in the field of software development for a variety of devices and platforms, told him that the iPad solve a fundamental problem.

I spent a year and a half to make a massive, complex site a huge social network application that manages just touch and fits in your pocket. My goal was to create something like a small addition to the full giant facebook.com, but when I get used to and adapt to the iOS, it occurred to me that you can create an application that will be even better than the site. What would a great variety of platforms I have not seen in my career, iOS inspired me stronger and all motivated to work with the user interface as a piece of art, rather than just program. But there was something that did not allow me to reach perfection: the screen is still too small.

the iPad - a incredible opportunity for developers to reconsider each category, which is in iOS. The bottom line is that a lot of applications on the iPhone that look cute toys on the iPad can be a versatile and powerful tool. And you will forget about their predecessors on the PC. It is only necessary to create them "

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The final part of this article is available on MacRadar tomorrow.

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