Apple Released the iPhone Eight Years Ago Today

[62tele]

Our mobile touch lab saw nothing new in what Apple did. However, we were very happy that Apple brought a lot of stuff out into the public eye, because it greatly increased the worth of our own experience

LOL. It's not about what's possible in the lab, it's what you put in the end users hand. It's about the experience, hardware and user interface. The proverbial "whole being greater than sum of its parts". Clearly, it was a breakthrough product and most people were "blown away" with it. Obviously Blackberry, Microsoft and Google were unprepared for what Apple brought to the market.

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

It wasn't just a new introduction to the smartphone market; it launched the smartphone market into something more mainstream. Think about it: We had no fancy smart phones before 2007. The closest things we had were Blackberry phones, and those were not horrendously popular for a reason. I am unsure why history teachers aren't teaching this today, but 2007 marked another huge boom in the tech industry.

 

[navaira]

I believe Blackberry was very popular, but it was a phone for business people and nobody else. Maybe some uber-geeks had one for reasons unknown. I had... I think... a Sony Ericsson phone with proprietary jack connection when the first iPhone was introduced (this is one of the reasons I don't think 3.5mm jack should go away but I digress) and I fought, and fought, and fought the thing because it just never did what I wanted it to. And then someone has shown me what iPhone can do with a photo. Just zoomed it with two fingers. And I almost fainted. Alien technology, I tell ya.

 

[3rdiguy]

I remember someone gave me a first gen iphone that I 'learned" on even though it wasn't activated. Right before I bought my first iPhone, the iPhone 4. I will never buy another phone other than iPhones.

 

[Chloec]

8 years ago,,,only know noika, moto.
the first mobile phone is from moto, black-n-white screen,

 

[TC_GoldRush]

Someone buy me one of these unboxed!

 

[MDePew24]

Someone buy me one of these unboxed!

I still have my original iPhone I got on launch day with the bag it came in. Still works.