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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone

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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco. In what has become one of the most iconic moments in Apple's storied history, Jobs teased the device as if it were three separate products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device.

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Apple began selling the iPhone six months later, and nearly a decade later, the company has now sold well over 1 billion of them to customers around the world. iPhone sales continued to rise on an annual basis until 2016, when the smartphone experienced its first-ever year-over-year sales decline amid a down year for Apple. Nevertheless, the iPhone remains Apple's most successful product ever, accounting for 60% of the company's overall revenue last quarter.

"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."


Apple upended the mobile phone industry that was then dominated by earlier entrants such as Nokia and BlackBerry, two companies that are effectively out of the market today. Jobs poked fun at "smartphones" of the era, quipping they were "not so smart" and "not so easy to use," while criticizing outdated hardware features such as physical keyboards and styli. In turn, he introduced revolutionary new features such as Multi-Touch and scrolling to big rounds of applause.

Since then, Apple has improved the iPhone each year by adding several new features:

o 2008: App Store and 3G network support
o 2009: Video recording and Personal Hotspot
o 2010: Retina display
o 2011: Siri and iCloud
o 2012: Taller 4-inch screen, Lightning connector, and LTE
o 2013: Touch ID
o 2014: Larger 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch screens
o 2015: 3D Touch, Live Photos, and 4K video recording
o 2016: Waterproofing and dual-lens camera on iPhone 7 Plus

"It is amazing that from the very first iPhone through to today's newest iPhone 7 Plus, it has remained the gold standard by which all other smartphones are judged. For many of us, iPhone has become the most essential device in our lives and we love it," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing.

2017 is expected to be a big year for the iPhone, with rumors suggesting at least one new model will feature glass casing with a curved OLED display. The device may sport a nearly bezel-less edge-to-edge design with no physical Home button, but rather Touch ID embedded directly into the display as both patented by Apple and technologically possible. Other rumored features include wireless charging, facial or iris recognition, and a vertical dual-lens camera capable of 3D photography effects.

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I used to love the iPhone and still do to some extent but haven't upgraded from the 6 to the 7 on my usual 2 year upgrade cycle because they removed the headphone jack - need to charge and use 3.5mm jack at same time in car etc.

Interesting that Apple removes the headphone jack and for the first time in 10 years they have a sales decline. Could be a correlation there.
 
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And they are so full of themselves and incapable of managing their product pipeline that they can't be ars'ed to announce the next iteration on the same day 10 years later.........because the difference between a game-changing innovation (then) and 'thinner' (now) would make them look even greater fools.
 
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"An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone … Are you getting it?

*crowd erupts*

These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone.

Today, today Apple is going to reinvent the phone."

That part always gives me goosebumps man. Damn, I miss Steve
 
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dilbert99 said:
I used to love the iPhone and still do to some extent but haven't upgraded from the 6 to the 7 on my usual 2 year upgrade cycle because they removed the headphone jack - need to charge and use 3.5mm jack at same time in car etc.

Interesting that Apple removes the headphone jack and for the first time in 10 years they have a sales decline. Could be a correlation there.
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We do t know the iphone 7 numbers yet
 
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Looking at the yearly major feature list. I really don't see what was so "revolution" or "innovated" lots of forum members claiming the older iPhone used to be. Apple has been doing what they've always been doing. Making incremental updates and focus on user experience. The only differences are there are more companies developing new features than ever, and people now compares iPhone against every phone makers out there.
 
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It did set the standard for phones going forward without question but that standard is rapidly being met by others while Apple seems to be coasting on its earlier success. "The best is yet to come..." Tim? You better hope those aren't just your usual platitudes beause Phil's "Gold Standard" is rapidly becoming tarnished.
 
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Sandybox said:
And they are so full of themselves and incapable of managing their product pipeline that they can't be ars'ed to announce the next iteration on the same day 10 years later.........because the difference between a game-changing innovation (then) and 'thinner' (now) would make them look even greater fools.
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Just curious... from looking at the history of your posts, it appears you're only on MacRumors to complain about Apple. Are you just trolling? Looking for attention? What is it that brings you here to speak nothing but negative things?
 
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c0ppo said:
As far as TC is concerned, best is always coming. It's just that it's kinda hard to believe him, since it never comes. And when he introduces 'the best', he leaves a lot of people disappointed (iPhone 7, new MBP, etc.). :)
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Of course but hopefully "the best" means the best without some kind of trade-off, like paying a $200-300 premium for the redesigned flagship model.
 
dilbert99 said:
I used to love the iPhone and still do to some extent but haven't upgraded from the 6 to the 7 on my usual 2 year upgrade cycle because they removed the headphone jack - need to charge and use 3.5mm jack at same time in car etc.

Interesting that Apple removes the headphone jack and for the first time in 10 years they have a sales decline. Could be a correlation there.
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Exactly the reason why I didn't upgrade either.
 
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