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16 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone

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15th Anniversary iPhone Wallpaper — Basic Apple Guy

In honour of the 15th anniversary of the iPhone’s reveal, a wallpaper inspired by the image that teased us the week leading up to the event!
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
Can't reckon. Apple wouldn't be here today without the iPhone.
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I don't know about that. I think the Iphone was the next step in the Itunes/Ipod evolution and the Ipod was around for quite a while. Apple struck gold with Itunes mainly as a response to the Napster stuff, so as a music company, Apple was already entrenched.
 
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webkit said:
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.
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Just thoughi it was more but found an article showing the pricing you state
 
The first iPhone was a really cool tech demo, but so underfeatured and underpowered. I watched all my friends phones stomp all over mine for the next 2 years.
 
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Today marks 16 years since Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California, on January 9 and introduced the iPhone to the world for the first time.

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Standing on stage at Macworld Expo, Jobs uttered words that would go down in history as introducing a device that would change everything. "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone," Jobs said, unveiling the iPhone that stood apart given, at the time, its futuristic design, a multi-touch display with no physical keyboard, and iPhoneOS, a proper mobile operating system.

Jobs famously described the iPhone as an iPod with touch controls, a phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device, three distinct areas that no device at the time managed to tackle all at once. The original iPhone had a 3.5-inch LCD display, a 2-megapixel camera, and an aluminum and plastic body.

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Every year since the original iPhone, Apple has continued to update it with new features and capabilities. The first significant redesign of the iPhone came with the iPhone 4 in 2010, three years after the introduction of the original iPhone. The iPhone 4 marked a turning point in the history of the iPhone, offering an entirely new design with flat edges, a brand new Retina display, the A4 processor, a 5-megapixel camera, LED flash, and more.

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Two years later, the iPhone 5 marked another redesign for the iPhone, making it taller with a larger Retina display, the A6 chip, a thin design making it the "thinnest smartphone in the world" at the time, a new 8-megapixel iSight camera, and more.

In the years that followed, Apple would introduce several innovations that continue to live on to this day, such as Touch ID and Face ID, advanced cameras, industry-leading smartphone performance and battery life, sleek designs, and a tightly integrated ecosystem of devices.

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Fast forward to today, the iPhone lineup has five different models: the iPhone SE, iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Current-day iPhones include features unthinkable at the time of the original iPhone, including an all-screen display with no Home Button and thin bezels, facial recognition, 4K video recording, a 48MP camera, Dynamic Island, a higher-refresh rate display, and all the features and capabilities of iOS 16.

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The Palm Pilot was huge and Job tried to make an Apple version they called Newton that died fast. Cellphones and the Blackberry were big. So Jobs said lets shrink the failed Newton down and add a cellphone to it and the iPhone was hatched.
 
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What I remember from the presentation is Jobs saying this:

"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything ... One’s very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple has been very fortunate. It’s been able to introduce a few of these into the world.

1984 – we introduced the Macintosh. It didn’t just change Apple. It changed the whole computer industry.

In 2001, we introduced the first iPod. And it didn’t just change the way we all listen to music, it changed the entire music industry.

Well, today we’re introducing (the iPhone)."

And I thought, yeah right, Reality Distortion Field Steve Jobs, you're saying you know this thing today is going to be as big as the Mac and iPod. No one else has even seen it yet and still you're stating it as fact that it's gonna change everything. Sure.

And of course, he was RIGHT. The man was a magician.
 
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The Palm Pilot was huge and Job tried to make an Apple version they called Newton that died fast. Cellphones and the Blackberry were big. So Jobs said lets shrink the failed Newton down and add a cellphone to it and the iPhone was hatched.
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Not quite. Jobs wasn’t at Apple when the Newton came out.

For anyone who remembers, the iPhone wasn’t the first phone with Apple tied to it. I remember the terrible ROKR with iPod software on it. Apple ordered Motorola to cap the number of songs at 100, so it could protect the iPod line.

After that failure, Jobs said in a later interview they actually began working on the iPad first, then were able to shrink down the UI to a phone form factor. Work on the iPhone commenced, and the rest is history.
 
mectojic said:
The first few iPhones were used in a completely different way to they are now. Honestly, they stayed in our pockets more often- and fit better in those pockets.
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That’s why I love my iPhone Mini. Best phone since 5.
 
docbop said:
The Palm Pilot was huge and Job tried to make an Apple version they called Newton that died fast. Cellphones and the Blackberry were big. So Jobs said lets shrink the failed Newton down and add a cellphone to it and the iPhone was hatched.
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What are you smoking ?

The Newton, or more precisely, the Newton MessagePad was there way before the Palm Pilot existed. The Palm pilot was first released in 1996, whereas the First Newton MessagePad was released on 1993. In fact, the year after the Palm Pilot was introduced, Apple Released the MessagePad 2000 which was a lot more powerful than the Palm Pilot.

Apple tried to spin off the newton division into it's own company, but Steve Jobs killed it instead when he came back to Apple. (Long story short)

The Newton was long forgotten when the first iPhone was released. I happen to have all the models
 
Reason077 said:
Truly an amazing product, that original iPhone.

Google Maps in your pocket was mind-blowing at the time, there was nothing else like it on the market.
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I used to use Google Maps on the Blackberry then, even for navigation. But it was difficult and I think I was one of the few to use none preloaded apps on the Blackberry. Once the micro-USB port failed on that Blackberry, I switched to an iPhone and never looked back. Blackberry missed the boat royally back then. I had used one since the first pager-like device in the late 90's and experimented along the way with the Windows mobile device (whatever that was called). Apple just gets it (since my Apple IIc in the 80's!).
 
macrumoruser12 said:
Amazing how far the iPhone has come.
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Amazing how far PEOPLE have come just due to the :
simplicity,
efficient navigation,
ease of use that it just was MAGIC.
the software developers that gave us REAL QUALITY apps and services that was never even dreamt of before,
notifications that works PROPERLY and RELIABLY,
continued evolution of the OS!

and so much more.

THANK YOU APPLE for prying my blackberry from my cold as DEAD hands! and simplifying my life from BES administration!!!
 
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