Take the iPhone 12, released in 2020.
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:45 am
Moreover, those apps are built on standards—from KDE to Java, HTML, and Unity—that are built andor maintained by outside parties some of which compete with Apple in key areas. Payments in the App Store work because major banks have built digital payment systems and rails. Countless other technologies, from Samsung CPUs which in turn are licensed from ARM, to accelerometers from STMicroelectronics, Corning’s Gorilla Glass, and other components from companies like Broadcom, Wolfson, and National Semiconductor.
All of the above creations and contributions together created the iPhone and ushered in the era of mobile Internet. In addition, they also defined its improvement path.
If Apple could have released the iPhone 12 as its second canada mobile database model in 2008, it wouldn’t have cost Apple much at all. Even if Apple could have designed a 5G network chip at the time, there were no 5G networks for it to use, no 5G wireless standards for communicating with those networks, and no applications to take advantage of their low latency or bandwidth. Even if Apple had made its own ARM-like GPU in 2008 more than a decade before ARM itself, game developers which generate more than two-thirds of App Store revenue would have lacked the game engine technology they needed.
Getting to the iPhone 12 required innovation and investment across the ecosystem, much of which was outside of Apple even though Apple’s lucrative iOS platform was the core driver of these advances. The business case for Verizon’s 4G network and American Tower Corporation’s wireless tower buildout depended on consumer and business demand for faster, better wireless networks with apps like Spotify, Netflix, and Snapchat.
All of the above creations and contributions together created the iPhone and ushered in the era of mobile Internet. In addition, they also defined its improvement path.
If Apple could have released the iPhone 12 as its second canada mobile database model in 2008, it wouldn’t have cost Apple much at all. Even if Apple could have designed a 5G network chip at the time, there were no 5G networks for it to use, no 5G wireless standards for communicating with those networks, and no applications to take advantage of their low latency or bandwidth. Even if Apple had made its own ARM-like GPU in 2008 more than a decade before ARM itself, game developers which generate more than two-thirds of App Store revenue would have lacked the game engine technology they needed.
Getting to the iPhone 12 required innovation and investment across the ecosystem, much of which was outside of Apple even though Apple’s lucrative iOS platform was the core driver of these advances. The business case for Verizon’s 4G network and American Tower Corporation’s wireless tower buildout depended on consumer and business demand for faster, better wireless networks with apps like Spotify, Netflix, and Snapchat.