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The history of the iPhone line of phones begins with a direction from Steve Jobs to Apple Inc.'s engineers, whereby he asked them to investigate touchscreens and a tablet computer, which later came to fruition with the iPad.〔Cohen, Peter. (Macworld Expo Keynote Live Update ), ''Macworld'', (January 9, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Block, Ryan. (Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote ), ''Engadget'', (January 9, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Grossman, Lev. (The Apple Of Your Ear ), ''Time'', (January 12, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕 Also, many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad.〔Wilcox, Joe. (Apple's Son of Newton ), ''eWeek Microsoft Watch'', (January 9, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Kahney, Leander. (Apple Newton Versus iPhone ), ''Wired News'', (January 15, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔McCracken, Harry. (iPhone: It's a Newton! Sort of! ), ''PC World'', (January 13, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Mortensen, Pete. (iPhone: The Newton's Revenge ), ''Wired News'', (January 9, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕 Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive.〔〔Wilson, Greg. (Private iCreator is genius behind Apple's polish ), ''New York Daily News'', (January 14, 2007) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕 In April 2003 at the "All Things Digital" executive conference, Jobs expressed his belief that tablet PCs and traditional PDAs were not good choices as high-demand markets for Apple to enter, despite many requests made to him that Apple create another PDA. He did believe that cell phones were going to become important devices for portable information access, and that what mobile phones needed to have was excellent synchronization software. At the time, instead of focusing on a follow-up to their Newton PDA, Jobs had Apple put its energies into the iPod, and the iTunes software (which can be used to synchronize content with iPod devices), released January 2001.〔Mossberg, Walt. (The Music Man ) (fee required), ''The Wall Street Journal'', (June 14, 2004) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Kennedy, Niall. (Walt Mossberg interviews Steve Jobs ), (June 14, 2004) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Chaffin, Bryan. (Steve Jobs: No Tablet, No PDA, No Cell Phone, Lots Of iPods ), ''The Mac Observer'', (June 5, 2003) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕〔Howell, Denise. (D: Interview With Steve Jobs ), ''Bag and Baggage'', (May 30, 2003) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕 On September 7, 2005, Apple and Motorola released the ROKR E1, the first mobile phone to use iTunes. Jobs was unhappy with the ROKR, feeling that having to compromise with a non-Apple designer (Motorola) prevented Apple from designing the phone they wanted to make. In September 2006, Apple discontinued support for the ROKR and released a version of iTunes that included references to an as-yet unknown mobile phone that could display pictures and video.〔Chen, Jason. (iTunes 7.0.1 Has Buttloads of Mobile Phone Mentions ), ''Gizmodo'', (September 27, 2006) Retrieved February 1, 2007〕 Ed Zander (Motorola CEO at the time) “inspired” Steve Jobs with Moto's multimedia (e.g., iTune) + smartphone product concept. In result, Apple gained new product concept which was named "iPhone" while Motorola ironically walked away with limited version of iTunes app for Rokr/Slvr. On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention,〔Mather, John. , ''Ryerson Review of Journalism'', (February 19, 2007) Retrieved February 19, 2007〕 and that it would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. On June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device. Third parties would create the Web 2.0 applications and users would access them via the internet.〔Apple Inc. (June 11, 2007). (iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications ). Press release Retrieved June 14, 2007〕 Such applications appeared even before the release of the iPhone; the first being "OneTrip", a program meant to keep track of the user's shopping list.〔(iPhone Applications Example: OneTrip ), ''MacRumors, (June 13, 2007) Retrieved June 14, 2007〕 On June 29, 2007, Apple released version 7.3 of iTunes to coincide with the release of the iPhone.〔(Apple Updates iTunes For the iPhone ), ''PC World'', (June 29, 2007) Retrieved June 29, 2007〕 This release contains support for iPhone service activation and syncing. According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', the iPhone is manufactured on contract in the Shenzhen factory of the Taiwanese company Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn).〔(The Forbidden City of Terry Gou ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', August 11, 2007.〕 ==Exclusivity tying of the iPhone to AT&T== When Apple initially released the iPhone on June 29, 2007, it was sold exclusively with AT&T (formerly Cingular) contracts in the United States.〔 The tying arrangement between Apple's smartphone and a specific service provider caused some controversy, bringing the concepts of jailbreaking and bricking into the mainstream debate over the future of smartphone technology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the iPhone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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