Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new iPhone that was introduced at Macworld on January 9, 2007 in San Francisco, California.
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Apple unveiled its first ever iPhone on January 9th 2007 and this revolutionary device has since gone on to become one of world’s biggest tech success stories. “The best is yet to come”, he added.
And that’s all Apple wanted you to know about the first version of the iPhone, a device we now expect to do thousands of different tasks. Nearly every other company that was making phones at the time, those companies that wrote off Apple, aren’t making phones anymore: Microsoft, BlackBerry, Nokia, and Palm all don’t have the market share that they used to, largely because of Apple. “They sparked a true technological revolution because they’ve always had a laser focus on providing billions of people a better way to do the things they do every day”. Apple is expected to reveal some sort of augmented or virtual reality feature with the iPhone 8 – rumored to come out in September – but that is also something that Samsung and Google have already offered with their phones for a couple years. Speaking about the iPhone’s past, present and future on its 10th anniversary, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller teased that Apple is still just getting started.
“In the ten years since, iPhone has enriched the lives of people around the world with over one billion units sold”, the press release reads.
It’s so hard to believe that in the blink of an eye a decade has flown by and that we won’t being seeing the late Steve Jobs introducing their new anniversary model later this year.
As the worldwide smartphone market saturated and copycat competition from cheaper models intensified in Asia, iPhone sales slackened the past few quarters, depressing Apple’s overall revenue. Without the first iPhone, perhaps we would no longer have an Apple in 2017.
Even as iDevice fans have gear up for the next-gen handset, Apple acknowledges that the company is yet to traverse many more milestones.
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Apple launched the first iPhone over a year before there was an Android phone. Rumors are circulating that it will include an all-glass display and wireless charging. It is noteworthy to point out that ever since the first launch, Apple witnessed rising sales charts except for the year 2016 that marked its first ever decline.
