The cosmos looked very unlike in 2007 . George W. Bush was president ; the finalHarry Potterbook had n’t been release yet ; and while smartphones existed , they were n’t mainstream . But that last partbegan to changeon January 9 , 2007 , when Steve Jobs announced a " radical product"—the first - contemporaries iPhone — in a keynote address at the Macworld 2007 expo in San Francisco .
The iPhone was sold as a fluid gadget , but as Jobs described , its potency was n’t restricted to phone calls . As he described it , the widget was " a widescreen iPod with touch control , a rotatory peregrine earphone and a find net communications machine . " People could utilize it to intercommunicate , and also to listen to / watch amusement , memory board picture , and surf the internet .
" An iPod , a phone … are you getting it?“Jobs ask . " These are not three separate equipment . This is one gimmick . And we are calling it iPhone . Today , Apple is go to reinvent the telephone set . "
Not everyone was enamoredwith the iPhone . Some people said it was too expensive ; others complained that it was only usable on Cingular ( by and by AT&T Wireless ) , or only hail with 2 G telephone engineering . Plus , some people still loved their flip phones ( commend the Motorola Razr ? ) .
Still , the iPhone ’s popularity began to hang glide , slowly and steadily , after its official release on June 29 , 2007 . That yr , as market intelligence agencyMintel points out , stock nomadic phone sale refuse for the first clock time , and smartphone sales exploded to more than $ 12 billion . And in the preceding 10 years alone , Apple title , the companionship has sold over one billion iPhone units .
By now , the iPhone has been redesigned many time — it ’s make out a long , long path from the first - generation product that Jobs initially presented in 2007 yr ago . But today , we can take a few minutes to think the clunky gadget that changed engineering science ( and our lives ) by watching the video below .
