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15 Years Ago Today, the iPhone Went On Sale
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When Steve made the call to Starbucks from the Moscone Stage to order Latte's for everyone....☕️ 😂
Not an early adaptor at all, so I stayed out of the iPhone intro. Closest I came to getting an iPhone was an iPod Touch. As an Android user, am glad they're both around to "keep each other in check"
I was amused when they announced iOS finally got copy & paste. I've been doing that long on a 16-shade grayscale Palm OS device for the longest time!
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For me first was 3GS then the OG 4S then work started to get me phones so started getting them pretty often. Probably going to get whatever they have this coming year.
Have rewatched Jobs initial presentation a few times. That guy had a vision but was also amazing at selling it.
Have rewatched Jobs initial presentation a few times. That guy had a vision but was also amazing at selling it.
A couple of years ago my wife was decluttering her desk and found her ancient 3GS phone. We took it to an Apple store to recycle, and the clerk (who, like me, had never seen one) was amazed at the size and feel of it. We took a moment to geek out over it.
A new iPhone of that design would be great, but I suspect there wouldn't be enough room inside to house an adequate battery.
I worked at the Apple store during launch day, found the shirts they gave me
They still didn’t subsidize the phone. You could break your iPhone and come in and buy another one at the $499 price. You couldn’t do that with any other phone they sold at the time since those were subsidized.
And 15 years ago I bought the iPhone on day 1 and ditched the Blackberry.
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I remember going to E3 the year before they showed it back in May (maybe June?) of 2006 and I sat there in a conference room with a bunch of Microsoft guys that were showing me all these cool things and games you could play on a Motorola Q. At the time I just had a Samsung flip phone. Then when I saw the announcement in Jan I could care less about any other phone. I remember having friends at RIM saying how terrible it actually was and that it was just a toy.
I also remember when they first showed the phone that everyone gasped like they saw a witch. Then I remember playing with it and was in awe of it from the beginning. I didn't get one for another few years simply because I was on Verizon and $500 even for an amazing phone like that would have been too hard to swallow. I've tried Windows Phone, and Android briefly since then, and nothing to me even compares. Love the freakin iPhones man.
I also remember when they first showed the phone that everyone gasped like they saw a witch. Then I remember playing with it and was in awe of it from the beginning. I didn't get one for another few years simply because I was on Verizon and $500 even for an amazing phone like that would have been too hard to swallow. I've tried Windows Phone, and Android briefly since then, and nothing to me even compares. Love the freakin iPhones man.
Actually Apple had a "sweet solution" for us back then - web apps!
Remembering Apple's 'sweet solution' for iPhone apps before the App Store - 9to5Mac
In the summer of 2007, developers were anxious to hear how they fit into the iPhone story. Steve Jobs told...
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Sort of but not really. You actually didn’t activate the phone until it was in your possession. I bought mine, brought it home, Jailbroke it and used it on T-Mobile, without any contract. The iPhone 3G you couldn’t do that anymore since AT&T made you sign the contract first.
The 3G was the cheapest-feeling iPhone Apple ever released. Plastic back cover, not a laminated display so dust and debris found its way in between the LCD panel and glass. Terrible phone.
Yep, and copy and paste is still a chore (selecting things you don’t want etc). It works, but it’s not great.Not an early adaptor at all, so I stayed out of the iPhone intro. Closest I came to getting an iPhone was an iPod Touch. As an Android user, am glad they're both around to "keep each other in check"
I was amused when they announced iOS finally got copy & paste. I've been doing that long on a 16-shade grayscale Palm OS device for the longest time!
Remember lining up for this in Manhattan Beach Apple Store and getting sunburned cause I had to wait outdoors for about 5 hours! Went to buy some apple stock the next day.
I got it on release day $599 with a 2 year contract. I even got the free gift card a few months later but I still thought it was worth it without that.
Amazing that all of the components in that device were able to fit inside a watch a few years later, yet 15 years since Launch, society still mostly uses that form in various sizes, brands and operating systems.
Apple didn't invent it, but sure made the form / function mainstream.
Apple didn't invent it, but sure made the form / function mainstream.
You can call it or not call it whatever you want as I was simply commenting about the net result, including that the original iPhone required a 2 year contract. Given that AT&T was offering at least $150 plan discounts on other smartphones if the customer signed up for a 2 year contract, it is only logical that a similar plan discount would've applied to the iPhone. Since iPhone required a 2 year contract, the discount/savings would've been baked into the price instead of being a separate line item.
Again, the consumer price of the iPhone dropped dramatically going from $599 for an 8GB at launch in 2007 to just $199 for an 8GB iPhone 3G in 2008. Both with 2 year AT&T contracts.
Ok. I was speaking about proper, traditional methods i.e., not jailbreaking which could potentially open the door to lots of different things then and today.
So I still have $1000 worth in my "assets"... 🤔 Ok, forget it! I don't think I'll ever be able to sell it! 🤷♂️I sold my OG iPhone on eBay about 3 years ago for $1000. And I almost wish I still had it
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