The original iPhone is now 10 years old
It never came to Australia, had a price-tag of US$499 on an two-year AT&T-exclusive contract and didn’t even have support for third party…
It never came to Australia, had a price-tag of US$499 on an two-year AT&T-exclusive contract and didn’t even have support for third party apps or 3G mobile networks.
Yet ten years on the original iPhone undeniably set the tone for an incredible decade in consumer technology, one that, with not even one ounce of hyperbole, forever changed the ways in which people would connect and escape.
It also had a headphone jack.
Now in 2017, as the world awaits President Donald Trump and another slightly faster, less exciting iPhone, be sure to put aside a few minutes to watch Steve Jobs introduce the smartphone, with a level of charisma and enthusiasm that Apple will never top.
From Apple:
January 9 marks the tenth anniversary of iPhone’s blockbuster debut. At Macworld 2007 in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced the world to iPhone as three products in one — “a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device.” In the ten years since, iPhone has enriched the lives of people around the world with over one billion units sold. It quickly grew into a revolutionary platform for hardware, software and services integration, and inspired new products, including iPad and Apple Watch, along with millions of apps that have become essential to people’s daily lives.
“iPhone is an essential part of our customers’ lives, and today more than ever it is redefining the way we communicate, entertain, work and live,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone set the standard for mobile computing in its first decade and we are just getting started. The best is yet to come.”
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