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15 Years Ago Today, the iPhone Went On Sale
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I hear the deodorant industry is keen on cloning him to increase their sales
Great for early adopters, but I think the 4 is when it became more affordable and the phone you really wanted with its high res screen. Great device
YES!!! That earpiece was phenomenal. I had several different brands up to that point, and the Apple one spoiled it for me. I found it recently and the fond memories... I never saw the dock but had several of the combo cords. I heard that people could get two and 'do stereo', but it likely wasn't really supported at that time, but loved that 'stalk'.
One guy, I never could figure out what he was doing there, railed at me that it was MY server setup that was killing HIS Blackberry server. He was forwarding his emails to his Blackberry server, and was ranting that a small percentage of the emails are getting through, AND he couldn't read them on his computer anymore
. I tested with several messages and all went through fine. He complained about lag too. Okay, forwarding emails out of an Exchange server to a PC running server software on a residential internet line isn't going to have some issues? Okay.He declared that 'we' should host the Blackberry server software in-house so it 'worked better'. He was using it in 'free mode (?)' and wanted their company to do the same. I refused to install or support it unless they did 'full mode', and that was hysterically expensive, and ran heavy on the server, and was notorious, from what I could determine, to drop messages and cause many issues, etc, etc...
Eventually he dropped it. I gave him some pointers on configuring his server better to support it, but thought it never actually worked right. I think he ended up just forwarding messages directly to it somehow, and even that didn't work flawlessly. *shrug* It seemed a long way around the issue of getting messages on a mobile device, to have your own 'server' and install flaky software. Weird... Sometimes the customer isn't right, they are down right nuts...
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The iPhone 4 was a game-changer. The original iPhone was as well, but it lacked 3G and had no app store. A very different device from what we have today. But it was huge back then.
iPhone has come a long way since the original iPhone. Also cannot believe its 5 years since iPhone X was launched.
And of course….how do I do a quick battery swap if the current one goes bad??
Oddly I always get confused thinking the iPod Touch was announced before the iPhone as I think you could buy one of those in the UK before the iPhone was available in the UK
I'm not sure Apple and/or O2 were expecting the sneaky trick of buying the original iPhone for £269 expecting you to then sort out a contract to go with it...only for some genius to straight away bypass the activation so you could just stick a Pay As You Go SIM card in the thing!
My biggest regret is only buying one rather than two and then keeping one sealed, hindsight goggles kicking in I guess
3 years later the iPad then came along and I remember everywhere reckoning it would be a massive flop because it was 'just an iPhone with a bigger screen!'
I'm not sure Apple and/or O2 were expecting the sneaky trick of buying the original iPhone for £269 expecting you to then sort out a contract to go with it...only for some genius to straight away bypass the activation so you could just stick a Pay As You Go SIM card in the thing!
My biggest regret is only buying one rather than two and then keeping one sealed, hindsight goggles kicking in I guess
3 years later the iPad then came along and I remember everywhere reckoning it would be a massive flop because it was 'just an iPhone with a bigger screen!'
I'm not sure about the UK timeline but the iPod touch launched in the U.S. in September 2007 with 8GB and 16GB versions available. That same month, the price of the iPhone (which had gone on sale in June) was reduced $200. The 8GB iPhone was now $399 (with 2 year AT&T contract) and the 8GB iPod touch was $299.
Add Motorola and Ericsson to that list and you probably had over 80% market share. All but gone. A genuine industry-changing device that has gone on to change so many others over the past 15 years. Happy Birthday, iPhone!
In 2007, the cell phone device market included Nokia (38%), Motorola (14%), Samsung (13%), Sony Ericsson (9%), LG (7%), and others like Apple, BlackBerry, Palm, etc. made up the balance (19%).
Companies like BlackBerry, LG, and (original) Palm have exited the phone business but several new companies/brands have come along.
Of course you are posting your message on an Apple device so obviously still good enough for you.Back when Apple was good
I waited in line on June 29, 2007 to get an 8GB iPhone. It's the only iPhone I've ever kept, surprised it still works. It still looks (I have some dents) and feels just like it did 15 years ago, Apple's interpretation of the smartphone. Steve Jobs' fingerprints are all over it.
