Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2007. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
Posted on 06/22/2017 4:04:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in January, 2007, before an adoring congregation, in his signature “Sermon on the Mount” style. On June 29, it became available to the public. Ten years later, the phone has spread like Christianity. There are 1 billion iPhones in use, and the device represents “the pinnacle product of all capitalism,” as Brian Merchant argues in his new book, “The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.” Merchant calls the adoption of the iPhone — and its adoption of us — a “rapid, civilization-scale transformation.”
Happy birthday, iPhone. Time for a return to its origins.
In the stage show that introduces the phone, Jobs has no doubt he’s making history. The Apple logo is rendered, tall as a man, in what looks like onyx ganache. Jobs stands on the dais, haloed in the logo’s glow. He explains the novelty of touch-screen scrolling. He flashes the album art from Green Day’s “American Idiot.” He plays a good-luck voicemail from Al Gore. He speaks of magic, of revolution.
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Don’t own one. Really.
Not me, I use a Nokia 3585 that I have had for 18 years.
No iPhones in this house . . . 2 parents + 2 college aged kids.
One of those . . . just because everybody else has one doesn’t mean we have to run out and get one too.
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Still haven’t bought one but I got the wife a 5s for Christmas and we really like it. I think I’m holding out for the 8.
Got an iPhone 6s
No complaints
Go to about 23 minutes in. The introduction of the iphone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3gw1XddJuc
Android is better but Apple did popularize the smartphone.
Nor do I. Never owned an Apple anything.
I meant cell phone, but that’s true also.
4 iPhones in this house, 2 iPads, and a Mac
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My kids bought me an iPad,which I DID NOT WANT,but they got it for me anyway.
I love it.
(They forced Amazon,Netflix,and HULU on me too,and they pay for them.) Sometimes mother does NOT know best.
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Correction-—they bought me an iPod Touch.( I do get a tad confused.) :-)
Without the Iphone there would not have been innovations in smart phones.
Apple set the standard.
And I still use Samsung.
Apple is better but, I am not an Apple guy, which is funny because I knew Jobs and have known Woz for 30 years.
I still have my 486 Dx66 that Woz put a sticker on that read “It Smells Inside”.
I keep it for laughs....
Guy is one funny dork and his assistant is as well....
Well, his assistant was.
He no longer works for Woz...
No, Android is a poor copy of the iPhone that is far less secure, and no where near as fast as the iPhone, with a clunkier interface, and the only real thing it has going for it is that most models are cheaper. . . but not all.
The iPhone 7 is twice as fast as the best Android phone you can buy — BGR
iPhone Vs Android Security Compared In Light Of Apple-FBI Case — Redmond Pie — Answer, it ain't Android.
It’s an amazing gadget. I use it for many different things... even unusual things like decibel meter and vibration analysis... stroboscopic tachometer... police scanner... ham radio.
Mostly the camera, though. It’s good to always have a decent camera with me.
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