In the trial between Samsung and Apple, which is now taking place, Phill Schiller was called to testify and the vice president of the marketing division made some interesting statements. To begin with, he said that each iPhone sold better than the sum of all the others released before it, the statement being supported by the sales figures, figures that Apple publishes every fiscal quarter. Now the iPhone 4S should hold this title after Q3 2012, but for now we don't actually know how many units Apple has sold since its launch.
Going further, Schiller claimed that before the launch of the iPhone, people asked the company to develop a car or a camera, but Apple was working on the iPad but turned its attention to the iPhone because the phones of that time were not good as multimedia devices. Schiller claims that back then everyone expected the iPhone to be a failure, but things didn't turn out that way and the iPod is the device that allowed the company to get this far. Many more interesting details will be available as soon as Scott Forstall testifies, but for now we'll leave it at that.
