iPhone is 10 years old. Here’s how it has changed the world of smartphones
It was January 29, 2007 when young Steve Jobs with great pride presented the world’s first iPhone. A phone capable of surfing the Internet, receiving mail, browsing through the maps all using a single fully touch display. The beginning of a new era that everyone would then follow.
A young Steve Jobs wearing his usual black wig and jeans featured the world’s first iPhone. A premier smartphone that combines multiple business and entertainment capabilities and is able to reinvent the phone concept as it has never been before. It was January 29, 2007 and after six months, or June 29, the device that would open a new era in telephony was first marketed on American territory.
An event seen by many with skepticism, especially for a product that experienced completely new and practically never-so-so-made solutions to users. Let’s talk about a phone without any physical key, if not the main central one called the Home key. A product that would allow users a full-featured interaction with their fingers featuring a fully-capacitive touch screen, and a desktop interface designed to be used without any stylus or stylus as it was still being done by competitors.
The six months of waiting for marketing was for a long time ago mystery that was then unveiled by Steve Jobs himself, who justified this ” gestational ” period not so much for production issues but only because the first iPhone of the story was presented in good anticipation, Even before it was certified by the FCC. This is to keep the whole project secret at the aesthetic level, knowing clearly that no one should have spied on what would become an icon for many.
June 29 is undoubtedly a historic date for technology. A date from which many companies have realized that the world of telephony would have to change and that users should have more to do with cell phone manufacturers. It would have to allow a much wider view of mere phone call or simple and poor SMS.
In this, the iPhone was undoubtedly one of the precursors and Steve Jobs succeeded in what many did not believe was possible: reinvent the phone. Yes, because his way of thinking but also doing and interacting with people around him certainly did not allow easy life. A defect but also a bonus because stubbornness conjugated to genius allowed to gain what is worthless to deny it is not just a smartphone but a way of thinking and believing in technology.
Using an iPhone is like using a device that makes simplicity the main form of addiction. Those who have tried an iPhone as the main smartphone cannot deny that they have been amazed at the ease with which it is possible to do things with an operating system, iOS, which over the years has gained more maturity but also features that perhaps others already had time but that in Apple seem to find a new meaning.
iPhone is not just a simple phone device that can make photos, surf the internet, or even allow you to communicate with your friends at a distance, but it is also a product that is part of an ecosystem where the Mac, iPad, iPod and even AppStore are one allowing you to get the most out of every industry.
It is clear, how these times have changed in these ten years and how competition has reached unexpected levels. Producers such as Samsung, Huawei, LG or even Xiaomi are perhaps more innovative than Apple in their displays, cameras or their operating systems. This certainly did not go unnoticed in Cupertino and in this tenth, anniversary could come back to the magic that had so characterized the company in 2007.
The iPhone coming up by the end of the year seems ready to innovate so much to make others already obsolete. There is talk of OLED borderless displays, of latest generation processors, of cameras capable of carrying the three-dimensional, but what really will allow Apple to overwhelm the others once will have to be that unique and different being.
His motto has always been ” Think Different “, that is to say differently, and it was with the iPhone. It was with the iPad, but it was also with the MacBook or the iMac. In short, Apple has always been distinguished for making ” different ” products in one way or another, and the new iPhone, as well as everything that will come in the future, will have to resume this very concept.
You can be an Apple fan or not, but it’s undeniable to say how the iPhone was and still is a hub for the world of telephony and technology. 10 years of sales, successes, models liked or disliked have passed, but it is clear that, if we use smartphones today with anything that comes with it, it’s also thanks to the iPhone. For this: so many greetings iPhone.
