And began the process of Apple hoovering up all the future revenue that the telecommunications companies and existing mobile phone manufacturers thought was going to be theirs as gatekeepers to an internet you could carry around.
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16 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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The springboard for the ipad, which together with android based devices have moved the internet from something done in a room upstairs to being with us at all times. Remember when you would turn the computer on to check facebook and emails?
If not all time definitely for apple , definitely seminal
Can you imagine where apple would be without the iphone?
Can you imagine where apple would be without the iphone?
I know at first the original was like $800 because there were no subsidies yet then. I don't remember if they released another at a lower price, or if they started subsidies
That's not actually true. The price was $600, but it was meant to be subsidized as you could only properly activate it on AT&T through iTunes. Of course the fault in the plan was that you got to walk out with the phone without activating it, which resulted in people taking them overseas etc.
2 months into sales, the lowered the price to $400 — same activation scenario. Those of us, who already bought it — got a $100 Apple voucher.
Where are you getting the $800 figure from? When the original iPhone launched in the U.S. it was only available through Apple and AT&T and had a price of $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) with 2 year AT&T contract. Had they marketed the iPhone without the contract requirement, prices may have been $649 and $749 (AT&T typically discounted new phones at the time by $150 with 2 year contract) but they weren't offered that way. Within three months, prices were slashed by $200. To appease ticked off early adopters who had paid the higher price, Apple gave them $100 gift cards.
14 years ago would be the ideal time to buy $AAPL. 2 years after iPhone was released and after the 2007-2008 financial crisis
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I waited for a few months after the new iPhone came out. Glad I waited after Steve Jobs slashed the cost of the first iPhone. Still the best iPhone to date.
Still the best iPhone to date.
Has anyone mentioned in the US it was an AT&T exclusive?
I had Verizon and AT&T was garbage in my area, so I was SOL. I got an iPod touch.
I had Verizon and AT&T was garbage in my area, so I was SOL. I got an iPod touch.
A product that literally changed the world. My only issue with it at the time was that it was AT&T exclusive. That was wild.
I remember when I got the iPhone 3G, which was the first iPhone to launch here in Australia, and it was amazing. Glass IPS screen that was multitouch, being able to zoom in on webpages without losing quality on the vector text, it was a revelation. I also remember for years afterwards other people buying cheap androids with crappy plastic single touch TN screens. From the start iPhone never compromised, it was a highly premium product and everyone knew it. These days everyone has an iPhone and all mainstream phones have glass multitouch IPS/OLED displays, but back then there was a real "wow" factor to iPhone. People would ask to look at yours and marvel at it, like Bill Gates is said to have done when he first saw and handled the iPod.
Steve Jobs was a true visionary and his team behind the iPhone design were bonafide geniuses. It's a real shame that we are left only with Jobs' ethos and not the man himself. But we are lucky that Jobs spent so much time with Apple that his design values were instilled in the company. Jobs would definitely have been impressed with iOS7 imo.
Steve Jobs was a true visionary and his team behind the iPhone design were bonafide geniuses. It's a real shame that we are left only with Jobs' ethos and not the man himself. But we are lucky that Jobs spent so much time with Apple that his design values were instilled in the company. Jobs would definitely have been impressed with iOS7 imo.
I thought that Cisco had the trademark on "iOS" (their Router OS). hence why they called it iPhoneOS until around the 3rd iPhone when they came to a licensing deal with Cisco.
I saw a post from YAYAREALIVING a day or so ago which commented on the lack of excitement regarding some feature of a still speculative future MBP 15 inch.
I wanted to comment about my general lack of excitement for anything Apple has launched in the last X years. I wanted to say that when Steve Jobs launched a new Apple product, he made sure that it incorporated "WOW!" that lasted for months prior to launch and for months post launch. I wanted to compare that to Tim Cook's Apple which launches new Apple products to a collective, "Meh...". Tim Cook's Apple seems not concerned with products that "WOW!", but rather places overwhelming emphasis on its price increases, product proliferation (currently Apple sells 8 iPhones: two 14 pros / two 14s / two 13s / One SE / One 12), price ladders, and margin accretion plans.
All at the expense of standard setting product quality and not one new product that shows, in Steve's words, that "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the ______."
I wanted to say that a day or so ago.
Then I saw this article.
Jan 9, 2007 -- Steve Jobs: "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone." All for $499!
Pick a Day -- Tim Cook: Today, Apple is going to release the 152nd incremental improvement on the incrementally magical iPhone 250. And one more thing: It's now magically priced at an affordable $5000. But don't worry, we still offer 2 versions each of the prior iPhones 100 through iPhone 249, each starting at $2999.50 per phone.
The biggest "WOW!" that Tim Cook has given me, is the one that comes before this statement: sigh, "I long for a return to Steve Job's Apple."
I wanted to comment about my general lack of excitement for anything Apple has launched in the last X years. I wanted to say that when Steve Jobs launched a new Apple product, he made sure that it incorporated "WOW!" that lasted for months prior to launch and for months post launch. I wanted to compare that to Tim Cook's Apple which launches new Apple products to a collective, "Meh...". Tim Cook's Apple seems not concerned with products that "WOW!", but rather places overwhelming emphasis on its price increases, product proliferation (currently Apple sells 8 iPhones: two 14 pros / two 14s / two 13s / One SE / One 12), price ladders, and margin accretion plans.
All at the expense of standard setting product quality and not one new product that shows, in Steve's words, that "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the ______."
I wanted to say that a day or so ago.
Then I saw this article.
Jan 9, 2007 -- Steve Jobs: "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone." All for $499!
Pick a Day -- Tim Cook: Today, Apple is going to release the 152nd incremental improvement on the incrementally magical iPhone 250. And one more thing: It's now magically priced at an affordable $5000. But don't worry, we still offer 2 versions each of the prior iPhones 100 through iPhone 249, each starting at $2999.50 per phone.
The biggest "WOW!" that Tim Cook has given me, is the one that comes before this statement: sigh, "I long for a return to Steve Job's Apple."
Apple had similar exclusivity arrangements in other countries too e.g., O2 was the exclusive carrier in the UK, Orange was the exclusive carrier in France, T-Mobile was the exclusive carrier in Germany, etc.
Oh, the memories. I spent hours trying to get an iPhone activated on AT&T’s network.
Plus, whole list of issues with Apple ME. Can’t recall if that was that first year or not…
Plus, whole list of issues with Apple ME. Can’t recall if that was that first year or not…
Hah! Thank you. IOS was also an issue between the two companies.No, iPhone.
Source:
Apple, Cisco settle iPhone trademark lawsuit
The agreement allows the two companies to use the iPhone brand on their own products.www.cnet.com
Cisco licenses iOS name to Apple, screenshot shows iWork on iPhone | AppleInsider
Before Apple announced its newly renamed iOS, the company came to an agreement with the owner of the trademark, Cisco. Also, a screenshot temporarily shown on Apple's website suggested Keynote, part of the iWork suite, could be coming to the iPhone.
iPhone in Mexico:
Apple has reportedly lost ownership of 'iPhone' trademark in Mexico [u] | AppleInsider
A court in Mexico has ruled that the name iPhone is too similar phonetically to local brand iFone, and has denied Apple's appeal to cancel one of the Mexican company's trademark rights.
iPhone in Brazil:
Brazil's Prosecutor General says Apple owns 'iPhone' trademark - 9to5Mac
Back in 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Court decided to accept the appeal of local company IGB Eletrônica (also known as...
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I get a good laugh every time I watch Steve Ballmer's reaction to the iphone. That guy couldn't have been more wrong, lol.
It's worth a minute of your time, if you haven't seen it already.
It's worth a minute of your time, if you haven't seen it already.
The original iPhone was hardly a bargain out of the gate. The initial launch price of the entry 4GB version was $499 and that was with a 2 year AT&T contract. Had it been marketed without a contract requirement, the price may have been $649 which in today's dollars would be around $930. You can get a larger, faster, more powerful, etc. iPhone 14 with 32 times the storage for $829.
As far as recent iPhone price increase, they have been pretty modest to non-existent in the U.S. For example, the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models haven't seen U.S. price increases (in fact, 256GB and 512GB versions are actually $50 cheaper) since they were introduced in 2019. I realize some countries have seen notable price increase but that has largely been due to currency exchange factors.
Ballmer's reaction was actually pretty accurate, at least about the price. In less than three months, the iPhone price was dropped $200 and dropped again the following year. The 8GB iPhone went from $599 to $199 in one year. Had that not happened, it may have been a very different story for the iPhone. Had it launched at $199, Ballmer's reaction would have likely been different.
Who knew back then how much the iPhone would change the world.
Agree, that's are all about the leadership.
Steve was brilliant, revolutionary, charismatic and beyond awesome. His keynotes was pure magic.
Tim is boring, boring, boring but have been great financially for Apple.
Keynotes today are just time consuming and boring with a lot of puppets, way too long, and I don’t watch them anymore.
Steve will never be forgotten. Who could ever forget that keynote when iPhone was presented?
I am so happy I didn’t follow my brothers advice more then partly. He was a PC guy, but he told me to go buy a computer. So I went off and bought my first Mac. There it all started ♥️🍏🖥️📱
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Can't reckon. Apple wouldn't be here today without the iPhone.