What challenges did Steve Jobs and his team face while developing the iPhone?

While developing the iPhone, Steve Jobs and his team faced several challenges. One of the main challenges was simplifying the complex features that other smartphones had. They had to pioneer a new technology, multi-touch, and replace physical keyboards with a fluid software interface. This was a significant shift from the existing technology and required extensive research and development. Additionally, they had to ensure that the iPhone was not just a phone but a revolutionary product that combined the features of an iPod and an internet communications device. This required a high level of innovation and creativity.

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Jobs' next target industry was smartphones. Jobs and the team relentlessly worked to simplify what other phones made complicated. Apple pioneered multi-touch and made a phone that replaced physical keyboards with a fluid software interface. At the launch in 2007, Jobs said that he was introducing three revolutionary products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device. Then he revealed that it was one single device: the iPhone. Within three years, Apple had sold 90 million iPhones and cornered more than half the global cell phone market profits.

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