Apple’s Operating System iOS

Technology is rapidly advancing and progressing! Computers have developed well beyond their beginning. Along with the computers come the developers and different companies who compete to have the best products and most useful software! These companies have different names and their products have different features and capabilities. Apple is one of the most popular electronic device producers today. They earned their credibility by developing some of the best devices with very reliable and useful software. According to Forbes Magazine on August 21st, 2012 Apple made history by becoming the most valuable company in history, beating out the previous champs Microsoft. They first started with the Macintosh computer which ran on Mac OS. The Macintosh computer was so popular because of the graphical user interface or GUI. The GUI is the part of the computer that people, or users, actually see. Over time the Macintosh evolved into the Mac running on OS X. Along with Apple’s evolving is the progressing of their mobile devices. They made their debut in 2007 releasing the iPhone which was the only touchscreen smartphone on the market. The iPhone ran on iOS which has developed over time, for example: iOS 3, iOS 4, iOS 4.1 etc. This operating system was designed for their different mobile devices. Apple specifically designed this system so that it is easy to use and compatible the devices. Their easy-to-use mobile systems began with four iOS layers. The thing that really makes Apple’s devices the best are the operating systems which support them.
The operating system Apple uses for their mobile devices is iOS. This iOS software is made up of four main layers: the Cocoa touch layer, the Media layer, the Core Services layer and Core OS layer. Within each of these layers are many different frameworks that all carry out different jobs to help the user have a pleasant experience.