In January of that year, 2007, I watched the keynote and listened as Steve told us all about the amazing iPhone. Somehow at that time it didn't really register with me just how revolutionary this actually was. I had a Sprint flip phone that I used once-in-a-while and half the time forgot to charge so that it wasn't ready to use when I DID need it. Watching the keynote, I shrugged and said to myself, "I've got a cell phone already, why would I want one of those things?"
Heh....Time went on and it seemed as though there were an awful lot of magazine articles and talk about this upcoming new device, which some had dubbed "the Jesus Phone," and as it got closer to the actual launch day I decided to watch the keynote again, just for the heck of it..... Something clicked then, and this time, listening to Steve and watching, the penny dropped. OH -- a computer in my pocket! THAT's why I would want "one of those things." BOOM!! Reality Distortion Field embraced me, Steve earnestly convinced me that, yes, I needed an iPhone! I gawked at the keynote, then read a few more articles online about it. Anticipation was building everywhere....
On the morning of Launch Day I woke up and thought, "Yes, I"m going to do this!" and early in the afternoon went over to the local mall and got in line outside the Apple store -- I was number 107 (weird that I still remember this after all these years!) and sat there, leaning against the wall of another store looking in wonder at all the other people in line, too. Were we all nuts or were we on the cutting edge of something really amazing? I called a friend (my last phone call on the old Sprint) and she succinctly informed me that I was crazy. LOL! Mind you, none of us had yet seen or touched an iPhone at all. Finally the appointed hour came and we were all entering the store. They had things set up so that one went to the register and paid for the iPhone in the capacity of one's choice (4 or 8 GB; no color options back then!) and was handed a bag which had the iPhone safe and sound in its box. Only when I was headed out was there a display on a table and I curiously picked up and studied an iPhone to see what I had just dropped $600.00 on.....
I knew I was going to have to change my carrier, since AT&T was the only one that handled the iPhone at that time, so I hurried home and got online and went through the process of setting up my new iPhone and porting my number from Sprint to AT&T, and then gazed at my new device in wonder. Wow.... At that time I still had my contacts list on a sheet of paper so took the time to put in family and friends' names and numbers and other info on the iPhone and marveled at how much easier it was to use the numbers pad on the iPhone than it was fiddling with the awkward system on the Sprint phone. Once all that data was in I began playing with the new device, seeing what all I could do with it and promptly fell in love....
That new "computer in my pocket" was definitely the beginning of something big, and especially as time went on and Apple refined it, developed the App Store and so on -- that first year most of us with the iPhone were carrying and using an object of curiosity and many of our friends and family said, "oh, that's cool, but I don't think I want one...." Now, years later, just about all of my friends and family have iPhones (and some also iPads now, too).
I've still got my first-generation iPhone and one day not too long just for the heck of it I plugged her in and she still does work! I also, yes, still have the box and the bag, too......
Heh....Time went on and it seemed as though there were an awful lot of magazine articles and talk about this upcoming new device, which some had dubbed "the Jesus Phone," and as it got closer to the actual launch day I decided to watch the keynote again, just for the heck of it..... Something clicked then, and this time, listening to Steve and watching, the penny dropped. OH -- a computer in my pocket! THAT's why I would want "one of those things." BOOM!! Reality Distortion Field embraced me, Steve earnestly convinced me that, yes, I needed an iPhone! I gawked at the keynote, then read a few more articles online about it. Anticipation was building everywhere....
On the morning of Launch Day I woke up and thought, "Yes, I"m going to do this!" and early in the afternoon went over to the local mall and got in line outside the Apple store -- I was number 107 (weird that I still remember this after all these years!) and sat there, leaning against the wall of another store looking in wonder at all the other people in line, too. Were we all nuts or were we on the cutting edge of something really amazing? I called a friend (my last phone call on the old Sprint) and she succinctly informed me that I was crazy. LOL! Mind you, none of us had yet seen or touched an iPhone at all. Finally the appointed hour came and we were all entering the store. They had things set up so that one went to the register and paid for the iPhone in the capacity of one's choice (4 or 8 GB; no color options back then!) and was handed a bag which had the iPhone safe and sound in its box. Only when I was headed out was there a display on a table and I curiously picked up and studied an iPhone to see what I had just dropped $600.00 on.....
I knew I was going to have to change my carrier, since AT&T was the only one that handled the iPhone at that time, so I hurried home and got online and went through the process of setting up my new iPhone and porting my number from Sprint to AT&T, and then gazed at my new device in wonder. Wow.... At that time I still had my contacts list on a sheet of paper so took the time to put in family and friends' names and numbers and other info on the iPhone and marveled at how much easier it was to use the numbers pad on the iPhone than it was fiddling with the awkward system on the Sprint phone. Once all that data was in I began playing with the new device, seeing what all I could do with it and promptly fell in love....
That new "computer in my pocket" was definitely the beginning of something big, and especially as time went on and Apple refined it, developed the App Store and so on -- that first year most of us with the iPhone were carrying and using an object of curiosity and many of our friends and family said, "oh, that's cool, but I don't think I want one...." Now, years later, just about all of my friends and family have iPhones (and some also iPads now, too).
I've still got my first-generation iPhone and one day not too long just for the heck of it I plugged her in and she still does work! I also, yes, still have the box and the bag, too......
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