[Swordmaker]

A Trip Down Memory Lane. . . 8 Years ago today, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Article has a link to the Keynote address . . . and the announcement of the first iPhone. — PING!

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[RayChuang88]

While the original iPhone was a breakthrough, the real breakthrough for the iPhone didn't happen until the iPhone 3G arrived in June 2008, which added the App Store for third-party apps and added GSM HSDPA support for much faster data downloads (for its day).

[SamAdams76]

I remember at the time that many people joked about the iPhone because it was so much different that what people felt a cellphone should look like. Even Steve Ballmer at Microsoft was cracking wise about it at the time, I think he said that "there was no chance Apple would get significant market share" with this phone.

Back in 2007, much ado was still being made about desktop computer marketshare and how Apple only had a tiny fraction of the personal computer market. Windows-based PCs had about a 96% share of the personal computer market and Apple could never hope to be a major player in that arena again.

But with the iPhone, Apple found a way to put computers in our pockets. Sometimes it's easy to forget that the iPhone makes telephone calls because we are so busy checking our email on it, sending chat and text messages, opening spreadsheets and documents, playing games on it, watching videos, playing music and taking pictures with it, etc.

So basically the iPhone was like a Trojan Horse for the Microsoft-dominated computer industry. Within just a few years, Apple would be on equal terms with Microsoft with respect to computer market share (being that iPhones and later iPads are computers).

It's still a great phone, but now making and receiving phone calls is just another of the thousands of other things you can do with it.

[a fool in paradise]

It still hasn’t changed my world.