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iPhone Turning Five Years Old with 250 Million Units Sold, $150 Billion in Revenue
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Looking at the screen caps on the original iPhone, it's amazing that the interface has hardly changed at all.
I think this is testament to how much Apple got right with their initial design. We still have the same phone, music, and (basically) home screens, not to mention the hardware design (screen size, types and locations of buttons) are the same as well.
I think this is testament to how much Apple got right with their initial design. We still have the same phone, music, and (basically) home screens, not to mention the hardware design (screen size, types and locations of buttons) are the same as well.
My original 1st Gen still in the wild, as an iPod touch at this point.
3Gs is back in-service for my brothers company.
And well I just freaking love my 4s.
3Gs is back in-service for my brothers company.
And well I just freaking love my 4s.
Happy Birthday iPhone!
Nice work Apple!
My first was the 3G and my wife is now using it. It's slow with iOS 4, but it still works. My brother got the original iPhone and it still works (although he has since moved onto a 4S). My current is an iPhone 4 and I'm waiting to see what the next iteration brings. I would like to upgrade and pass the iPhone 4 down to the wife. It would be nice to finally gain some of the features between us (Find Friends, Messages, etc). Of course, she would still not be able to use turn-by-turn it looks like (with the iPhone 4)
Nice work Apple!
My first was the 3G and my wife is now using it. It's slow with iOS 4, but it still works. My brother got the original iPhone and it still works (although he has since moved onto a 4S). My current is an iPhone 4 and I'm waiting to see what the next iteration brings. I would like to upgrade and pass the iPhone 4 down to the wife. It would be nice to finally gain some of the features between us (Find Friends, Messages, etc). Of course, she would still not be able to use turn-by-turn it looks like (with the iPhone 4)
The original iPhone really was a game-changer. Although the new features we get each year seem mundane in comparison, they are still bigger changes than we would previously see in most years for all phones put together.
Android is not a PHONE, is an operating system…
Tell me... Which PHONE has being doing better than the iPhone right now? or ever?
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You now, they've been trying to release an "iPhone Killer" since the first day the iPhone was announced. With any software, Android, Windows or whatever… It just never happened…
You can't buy an "Android", you can only buy a Phone that uses it, you have to choose one. So, it doesn't really matter how much they sell all together, you're not buying ALL of them, are you?
Only in USA and maybe Europe. I see in my neighbourhood more Nokia Ashas and chinese TV-Phones than multitask phones.
Oh, wait... iPhone 1 wasn't multitask but older Symbian-based phones was. It was innovative in marketing, perhaps.
Five Years
Five years on, touch screen phones are wildly popular; thousands of people are developing thousands of mobile applications; carriers are improving networks to handle applications/features available on popular phones. All things popularized by the original iPhone.
Five years on, touch screen phones are wildly popular; thousands of people are developing thousands of mobile applications; carriers are improving networks to handle applications/features available on popular phones. All things popularized by the original iPhone.
What impressive figures. I'm sure that every day Steve Ballmer regrets his pessimism with the original iPhone - and regrets not taking it seriously enough.
I've never seen anything become as popular as the iPhone! Got my first when it came out on O2 in the UK, had each one since. Moms got one, Dads got one!
6/7 people at my workplace have one, oldest is 55! - I live in rural England too!
-- Funny how it's changed, but still looks the same.
6/7 people at my workplace have one, oldest is 55! - I live in rural England too!
-- Funny how it's changed, but still looks the same.
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Android fans can deny it as much as they want, but the simple fact of the matter is, Android wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the iPhone. If Apple hadn't released the iPhone/iPad etc. we wouldn't be very much further on in terms of mobile phone tech development than in 2007. It certainty wouldn't be a market developers could make a decent living off, without mass OS support.
I can imagine that the phone market without iPhone would be be like an array of confusion with every manufacturer trying to push their OS as the one to use, (of which their phones are all lacking touch displays and have horrible plastic keyboards)
Maybe it happened in a parallel universe xD.
I can imagine that the phone market without iPhone would be be like an array of confusion with every manufacturer trying to push their OS as the one to use, (of which their phones are all lacking touch displays and have horrible plastic keyboards)
Maybe it happened in a parallel universe xD.
Yeah, that "Marketing" excuse again… You know, if marketing alone was powerful enough to make 150 BILLION out of any crap, nobody would be doing anything else in the world! Only "Marketing"! After all, it gives you money out of "nothing", right?
It doesn't matter how good your marketing is if you have a crappy product… But having a Kick-Ass product and not putting good marketing on it, would be just plain stupid...
The iPhone's problem is not lack of customization. It's already as customizable as it needs to be. It just lacks LTE, which I don't care about, but others do.
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I have one, and it works (but without a SIM card).
The funny thing is that my first child was born one month before the iPhone was released (May 2007) and she IS heading off to kindergarten this fall! I always tell her that there was no such thing as iPhones before she was born, and she laughs at that!! Like I'm telling her there was no such thing as television before her grandfather was born (which she and I both find funny).
Decades from now, she'll tell her children and grandchildren that she was born a month before the iPhone came out, and they'll say, "Wow, you're OLD!"
Yawn. It's hilarious that, even with ALL those units, Apple's device produces more revenue for Apple than everything Google does. See what you get for offering a bunch of BOGO nonsense on Boost Mobile? Also, you DO know the difference between a physical item and a platform right? The vast majority of Android phones sold were sold by others who needed a cost-free OS to throw onto their badly-made discount handsets.
Ya, cause its not like an iPhone will ever be one of the best selling smartphones in the world. Oh wait.
Let me know when an Android phone is able to outsell an iPhone. Heck, even a blackberry outsold an Android phone.