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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I sometimes forget that I can make phone calls on my iPhone. I use it for so many other things. Storing tickets for shows. Paying for most of my transactions. Getting much of my work done. Keeping track of my exercise and diet. Ordering things to my house like razor blades, food, and clothes. Watching movies. Reading books. List goes on and on.
Speak for yourself mental Lilliputian.
When my daughter calls on my wife's iPhone 6 and wants to talk to me I can hardly hear at all with the volume up all the way. Every iPhone I have seen is a piece of junk.
Although the iPhone camera gets rid of my dog's lazer eyes when my Note 3 can't.
I miss Steve Jobs. Apple is not the same without him.
Never felt the need for any sort of twit phone either, so I could walk around staring at the damn thing like a fool.
Me neither, but I think it’s only because I really hate buying anything because of a name or for the prestige or because everyone is doing it. I do like Macs for graphic design though. Just can’t afford it.
I wonder why I’m like that. Eh, who cares.
Just as a side note, one thing I don’t use my iPhone for is reading Free Republic, the desktop format doesn’t read well on a phone. FR should look into getting a mobile format. I don’t know how easy or difficult it would be to do that but it would make surfing FR on your phone a lot easier. (I know, first world problems)
I consider my iPhone as an electric Leatherman. It’s quite a useful tool.
“I miss Steve Jobs. Apple is not the same without him.”
I must agree. No one has matched his showmanship when it comes to Tech rollouts. He could really put on a show. He was a man who had an instinct for knowing what people wanted before they did. No question Apple is not the same without him they just don’t innovate the way they did.
Agree Android so MUCH better. And micro SD storage. No itunes dependency. Lovely.
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