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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone

Apple typically takes what's already out there and greatly improves it. The Mac took command line computers and added graphical interfaces. They took MP3 players and made it user friendly. They took supposed "smart phones" and made them into small computers with similar abilities as desktop computers and combined them with iPods and cameras.

What's next?
 
prowlmedia said:
Wow you are a very angry person who makes no sense at all.
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Not really, just a shareholder that is tired of Apple execs bluster and fanboy blind loyalty.
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Hedwigg said:
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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I think you will find if you bothered to look that much of my angst arises from frsutration with Apples recent product piepline and lack of recent gamechanging innovation. What would bring someone here only to say positive things or are alternate views no longer tolerated in your country?
 
Sandybox said:
Not really, just a shareholder that is tired of Apple execs bluster and fanboy blind loyalty.
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I think you will find if you bothered to look that much of my angst arises from frsutration with Apples recent product piepline and lack of recent gamechanging innovation. What would bring someone here only to say positive things or are alternate views no longer tolerated in your country?
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I always think it's funny when someone claims to be "an angry shareholder" to justify their trolling. Cute :)
 
compete12 said:
My MacBook is almost 10 years old....but no, I'm just a Mac user that doesn't feel the need to take a day off of work to wait for the FedEx delivery and watch unboxing videos every time a new product with more and more useless features comes out.
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My comment was more about how you think the iphone is responsible for people not looking while crossing the street.
 
MacsRgr8 said:
I had to import the 1st iPhone over from the US (hugely costly back then...) and had to jailbreak it to make it work over here in NL. At first it was via creepy terminal commands from the Mac and took some time and effort te get it to work.
Later is was simply installing an app via SFTP and executing that from the iPhone itself.

Anyone remember:
user: root
passwd: alpine
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That brings back memories! Back in 2007, I was working in China. When the iPhone came out, I went back home to the US and bought the iPhone directly from AT&T to take back to China. Back then, AT&T didn't require you to activate at purchase. I had to do the exact thing you did to get it to work in China.

Still have that original iPhone. Couldn't let that one go. Battery still works well. I have a 7 Plus now, so it is amazing to pick up the original and think how futuristic it felt back then.
 
kdarling said:
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Jobs' biographer also separately wrote that every evening Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things. They never pulled out a phone or tablet.
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I think the earlier, pusher analogy was el stinko, but the spirit of it -- the parental role -- had the proper aroma.

A dinner conversation shared by Jobs --

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We spent some time in our family talking about what's the trade-off we want to make. We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family. Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half? Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer? Did we care about using a quarter of the water? We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table. We'd get around to that old washer-dryer discussion. And the talk was about design.
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https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/
 
chriscrowlee said:
Timelines like this are what really make me realize just how stagnant iPhone "innovation" has become since about 2012... really nothing new and amazing. Samsung\Google released most things before Apple and now has stuff like wireless charging, fast charge, 2x the battery life, etc. Just seems like Apple had a strong out-the-gate, and then got a cramp, meanwhile everyone else passed by. Guess complacency wasn't learned from Nokia, Sony, Blackberry, Palm, etc. :-(
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Samsung Innovation™


Note 7 fast discharging, new & amazing.​
 
Awesome. I remember having the original iPhone and how truly amazing it was to use for the first time. I've owned every version since.
 
In January 2007 I fired up my iMac and watched that original keynote with Steve announcing the "Jesus Phone," the new iPhone -- and while I was impressed it didn't really register with me just how significant this really was. A few days before the actual launch I watched the keynote again and THIS time the penny dropped, and I realized what a terrific thing this could actually be..... On Launch Day I found myself waiting in line. None of us had yet actually seen or touched an iPhone. We were going on faith that this was the right thing to do. I used my old cell phone to call a friend; her response when I told her where I was and why? A very succinct "you're nuts!" LOL!

We finally were able to enter the store, where we went to the counter, handed over our plastic to pay for the thing (no contracts back then, we all had to pay for it outright and AT&T was the only carrier selling acellular data plan, etc.) and in return were handed a special bag with the box containing the iPhone inside. As I was walking out of the store I paused at a table where they had the new iPhones set up on display. I picked one up, marveled at it, then put it down and hurried home so I could set up my own brand-new first-generation iPhone. I've never forgotten that day and that experience. It was also fun in those first few months when once in a while I would see someone else with an iPhone, too -- another pioneer, first-adopter. We would smile at each other in recognition......

I still have my first iPhone and it is fun to hold her up beside my current iPhone, the shiny jet-black iPhone 7 Plus. That first one still works, too!
 
I loved the first iPhone. I was in the navy at the time and I saw the announcement but right after our mission required restricted access to the outside web off and on for a couple of months. I had my dad order me one and activate it and ship it. Man when I got that thing.... Everyone on the ship wanted to see it. I couldn't even bring it down to the smoke deck without everyone wanting to see. (Plus side, I didn't have to pay for Cigs for a while. The rest of deployment was chilled lol. Couldn't do anything with it at first but when we hit Bahrain and I could use it actually... MIND BLOWN lol. I downloaded as many pics I had online and music. When it came time for iOS 2 to be released we were in Greece and I went straight to a place with internet downloaded it went in the app store bought the monkey in the ball game and the BEST solitaire game ever created and by apple. to this day I hate the abandoned it. and I was set for the rest of deployment. Good times
 
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"An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone - are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it... iPhone."

I'm going to sound like the biggest Apple fan boy, but I remember watching the speech from where I was stationed in Germany and getting chills down my back upon hearing that. I bought my first iPhone within a day of getting back home!
 
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Oh, how I miss SJ Keynote presentations... "An iPod...a Phone... - are you getting it?" Brilliant presentation and revolutionary device(s). Today...?
When I was traveling with my iPhone 10 years ago people where marveling at it, asking if this was "it". Nice memories. This was one of SJ best presentation I think, next to the MacBook Air in manila envelope presentation.
 
"...and today more than ever it is redefining the way we communicate, entertain, work and live," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO.

That was absolutely true - in 2007. The iPhone took the world by storm and we haven't looked back. But today I pretty much use my iPhone the same way since 2009? I feel the technology has saturated. But I'd love to be proven wrong :)

"iPhone set the standard for mobile computing in its first decade and we are just getting started. The best is yet to come."

Oh, Timmy... you have no idea how much I want this to be true.
 
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Naimfan said:
Remarkable how little real innovation there is in the phone itself - it still looks amazingly like the original phone, and while a 6S or 7 can do everything better, the basic concept of phone - music player - internet device - camera remains.

Sure, everything in it has been improved, refined, and engineered, but . . .
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That to me is innovation plenty. It's easy to make something different, much harder to make something that is both different and better.
 
I remember that day quite well. I will never forget it. I was there with my brother at Macworld. When Steve was first listing off those 3 things, "An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator . . ." I immediately turned to my brother and said "Oh my god, it's not 3 devices, it's one!" and then 3 seconds later, Steve repeats it again 2 more times before stating it was one device. What a day. What a day.

P.S. And I still have my original iPhone. Still going strong!
 
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Oh gosh, I remember that so well. I was out hiking whilst mulling over a deal with a popular games publisher, thinking I could never afford one. I gave my Pocket PC away to my parents hoping they'd lend me the money to buy one. Never did though! Finally jumped in with the iPhone 4S, which I still think is their best design.
Funny isn't it how years ago you'd never consider spending that much on a phone. But now dropping £800 on such a device every couple of years is easy peasy.
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TitoC said:
I remember that day quite well. I will never forget it. I was there with my brother at Macworld. When Steve was first listing off those 3 things, "An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator . . ." I immediately turned to my brother and said "Oh my god, it's not 3 devices, it's one!" and then 3 seconds later, Steve repeats it again 2 more times before stating it was one device. What a day. What a day.

P.S. And I still have my original iPhone. Still going strong!
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I love the nuances between the USA and Europe, and I think phones is where they stood out too. We already had similar phones (well, Pocket PC phones) that were given away/subsidised via contracts, back when the iPhone launched. That - and how the US handles contracts and what's considered good value! Edit: And how 3G took so long to appear on the iPhone! Jeez!
 
cableguy84 said:
There will never be another Jobs.
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I think Elon Musk will make a bigger impact. Jobs is no doubt 1 in a billion but Elon is going to change the world / universe more. PayPal, electric cars/ solar / storage batteries/ cheap space travel / hyper-loop / electric super sonic air travel. Wait till you see what this guy can do. Both amazing people imo
 
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