GE103 - Human vs AI systems

Smart mobile devices

Dr Robert Batzinger
Instructor Emeritus

2022-09-03

1 Reports

Apple 3

Apple 2

Apple 1

2 Smart Mobile Devices

2.1 History

2.2 Moore’s Law

  • Published in 1965 by Gordon E. Moore at Intel
  • States that
    • the number of transistors in a computer processor of a given size doubles every two years
    • the cost of said computers is halved
  • transistor capacity currently doubles every 18 months

2.3 An announcement

  • The water cooler in the student lounge has been stolen.
  • Students are welcome to take water from the water cooler in the Dean’s Office on the ground floor
  • The Dean’s Office is open 8:30-12:00 and 13:00-16:30.

2.4 Agenda

  • Communication functions
  • Sensors, I/O data
  • Security device
  • Data collection
  • Maximizing the potential

What are phones doing to us?

3 Communication functions

3.1 Telephony

  • Cell phone
  • Voice over IP
  • Web-based communications

3.2 Networking

  • Gateways
    • Bluetooth
    • Wifi
    • USB
    • FM radio
  • Connection
    • Equipment
    • Other computers
    • Smart Home devices
    • On cloud services

3.3 Internet

  • Wifi
  • Hot spot
  • Data plan

3.4 Communications

  • Voice
  • Video call
  • Group discussion
  • Social media

4 I/O data device

  • microphone
  • camera
  • speaker
  • color screen
  • touch screen
  • External sensors
  • thermometer
  • motion detector
  • GPS
  • compass

5 Security device

  • security
  • Personal identity
  • recognition

6 Data collection:

  • readers
  • database
  • dashboard

7 So what does this device replace?

7.1 The firestorm that iphone caused

Google

7.2 The firestorm that iphone caused

Samsung

7.3 The historical persective:Faulty reasoning

  • Why include so many features? Most people never use all of them
  • Why not create a simple barebones mobile phone? People would flock to the cheaper alternative.
  • Android should just give up. There are virtually no sales of Android phones for the 3 months before an Apple launch. Queues to purchase iphones are km long
  • The iphone is overpriced. Who would buy a phone for US$600 A Nokia costs only US$95
  • What no users manual? How they ever learn how to use it?

7.4 Historical perspective: Migating factors

  • Wifi and cellular networks make the Internet available even to rural folk on smart phones
  • Android is open source, Apple is controlled by commercial license
  • Chinese productions reduce the cost of all electronic/electical goods reducing prices.
  • The mobile phone with UTF-8 suddenly allows the world access to the www in their mother tongue language.
  • Social media over mobile internet connections suddenly gave people power and a voice.

8 Maximizing the potential

  • Easy to does not mean no education or instruction is required.

  • Having good tools does not guarantee success

  • The old masters were able to create masterpieces with very primitive tools that are still popular today.

  • The quality of the story overcomes technical gaps.

9 A piece of history

Steve Jobs
  • The iphone reveal in 2007 was a major milestone in Apple’s history
  • The reveal was 6 month ahead of product launch in stores
  • When the iphone went on sale, it broke all first day sales records.

9.1 Setting a high bar

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