Ten technical facts your friends may not know
When you meet your colleagues the next time and talk with them about technology, what you need is carefully selected technical information to impress them and raise your balance as a "technical expert." Here are ten technical facts from the first smart phones to the most powerful supercomputers on the ground, which also helps you understand the devices you use in your daily life.
1.The first iPhone phone did not have an app store:
The first iPhone (released in 2007) did not include the Store Store, and all the applications were in Apple's development. Next year, the company launched its famous store with the iPhone 3G, followed by the Android Market in 2008.
2. We only keep one in every 10 applications we try
Analysts estimate that between 80% and 90% of applications loaded on smartphones are eventually deleted in the long run, meaning that we settle on one in 10 applications.
3. 205 billion emails sent daily
According to the best estimates, 205 billion e-mails are currently being sent and received daily across the world.
4.Apple and Microsoft were partners one day
Apple and Microsoft are currently competing companies - even though Microsoft appeared at the launch of the iPad Pro - but the two companies worked closely together. When the first Apple computers were developed in the early 1980s, Microsoft was working on many important programs for Apple.
The intense competition began only when each operating system launched a graphical interface (Mac OS and Windows).
5. Digital music sales surpassed sales of CDs
Although iPod has been on the market only since 2001 and Spotivay is back in 2008, last year digital music sales and monthly subscription sales exceeded the sales of music in its physical forms, such as digital and gramophones (6.85 billion versus $ 6.82 billion).
6. Amazon chose its name because "A" is the first English spelling
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, chose the name of the e-commerce company because at the time Yahoo was classifying its search engine results in alphabetical order. The original title was Cadrabra (as in Abrakadabra), but the name seemed to be Very close to the word "Cadifar" which means "funeral" decision was taken to amend the name.
1.The first iPhone phone did not have an app store:
The first iPhone (released in 2007) did not include the Store Store, and all the applications were in Apple's development. Next year, the company launched its famous store with the iPhone 3G, followed by the Android Market in 2008.
2. We only keep one in every 10 applications we try
Analysts estimate that between 80% and 90% of applications loaded on smartphones are eventually deleted in the long run, meaning that we settle on one in 10 applications.
3. 205 billion emails sent daily
According to the best estimates, 205 billion e-mails are currently being sent and received daily across the world.
4.Apple and Microsoft were partners one day
Apple and Microsoft are currently competing companies - even though Microsoft appeared at the launch of the iPad Pro - but the two companies worked closely together. When the first Apple computers were developed in the early 1980s, Microsoft was working on many important programs for Apple.
The intense competition began only when each operating system launched a graphical interface (Mac OS and Windows).
5. Digital music sales surpassed sales of CDs
Although iPod has been on the market only since 2001 and Spotivay is back in 2008, last year digital music sales and monthly subscription sales exceeded the sales of music in its physical forms, such as digital and gramophones (6.85 billion versus $ 6.82 billion).
6. Amazon chose its name because "A" is the first English spelling
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, chose the name of the e-commerce company because at the time Yahoo was classifying its search engine results in alphabetical order. The original title was Cadrabra (as in Abrakadabra), but the name seemed to be Very close to the word "Cadifar" which means "funeral" decision was taken to amend the name.
7. The first Internet browser called "World Wide Web" was chirped through Twitter
Tim Berners-Lee developed the method of accessing web pages using a browser. He also developed the first Web browser, called World Wide Web, and later turned into Nexos, originally opening the images in a separate window. Allows editing and viewing of pages.
8.The most powerful supercomputers exist in China. Text is sent via Twitter
The Tianhe 2 (OTH2), located at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China, is currently the world's most powerful computer, developed by 1300 scientists and engineers. It is capable of implementing 33.86 quadrillion Floating in a second, making it about five thousand times faster than the most powerful personal computers that can be assembled today. Despite its strength, it is very difficult to develop programs for it.
9 . Upload 300 hours of video on YouTube every minute
A spokesman for Google confirmed that the servers of YouTube to address the demands of downloading three hundred hours of video every minute from around the world, and this amount requires huge storage and processing power.
10 - iPhone .. The chicken that bleeds gold
Everyone knows that iPhone is the most successful Apple device, but did you (or your friends) know how much success? For the last three months, iPhone revenue has reached $ 51.5 billion. When compared to the full revenue of Google ($ 18.78 billion), Microsoft ($ 20.4 billion) and Facebook ($ 4.5 billion), it will realize that the iPhone is the gold-burning chicken.
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