No one anticipated the iPhone's meteoric rise when it was
first introduced in 2007. Critics complained that, unlike the BlackBerry
(remember those?), the touchscreen phone was too hard to type on. It was too
expensive. It had to be on the AT&T network. Little did those critics know
that, five years later, the rectangle with rounded corners would own the
smartphone market.
The device's wild popularity has, unfortunately, grown so
much that iPhone
and iPad thefts rose 40 percent in New York City. Thieves love the
Apple smartphone so much that they'll even snatch
them from babies. This stat got us thinking about Steve Jobs's masterpiece
and what makes it so special. So, as you clutch your device to keep it out of
harm's way, read these five totally crazy — but true — facts about the iPhone.
The most expensive piece in the iPhone 4 costs a whopping .
. . $28.50.According to research firm iSuppli,
the phone's Retina display screen is the priciest piece of the iPhone puzzle.
Together, the parts total about $200, although that doesn't take assembly,
design, or branding into account.
Continue on for more facts and figures on the iPhone.
250 million units of iPhones have been sold to date. If all
iPhone sales worldwide were concentrated in the US, it would be equal to nearly
80 percent of the entire
US population.
Nine rare earth minerals are used to make the iPhone
vibrate, play music, show color on its screen, and do all the cool things we
love it for. Many of those minerals are concentrated in one place,
and 90
percent of the elements are mined in China.
The computer chip that powers the iPhone is manufactured by
Apple's greatest rival, Samsung. Keep your friends close and your enemies
closer — as close asinside of
your bestselling product, we suppose. In case you missed it, Apple
filed a huge lawsuit against Samsung in June, claiming that the
company violated patent law by using aspects of Apple's most popular mobile
devices in its smartphones. Apple won the case, which might make the
collaboration between the two companies to design and manufacture the next
mobile processor a little awkward.
It took over 200
patents and 156 suppliers across three continents to make the iPhone.
Everything from the look and feel of the phone to all of its individual parts
to how precisely it's assembled was patented as intellectual property in early
developments of the iPhone. In 2012, Apple released a complete
list of its iPhone, iPod, and iPad suppliers, revealing the intricacies of
assembling the products.
Tell us why you love your iPhone.
by Popsugar tech
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