We all remember when we lived in the “dark ages” when we had cell phones that couldn’t access the internet well and “apps” and the “play store” weren’t even a thing yet. 8 years later, we fast forward to today, and we now have phones capable of processing information infinitely better than the computers we had sitting on our desks at that time. The IPhone has changed the technological world forever
8 years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the first ever IPhone on the Macworld stage, and the course of history was forever changed. He brought to the table, (or stage rather) an ideology of a technology that was a “widescreen IPod that encompassed a revolutionary phone and a breakthrough internet communicator” It wasn’t 3 products, but in fact, just 1, and the first IPhone was birthed into existence.
Instantaneously everything that had been released before the IPhone was rendered obsolete. In April 2003 at the “All Things Digital” executive conference, Jobs expressed his belief that tablet PCs and traditional PDAs were not good choices as high-demand markets for Apple to enter, despite the many requests made to him that Apple needed to create another PDA. He did in opposition believe that cell phones were going to become important devices for portable information access, and that what cell phones needed to have was excellent synchronization software. At the time, instead of focusing on a follow-up to their Newton PDA, Jobs had Apple put its energies into the iPod, and the iTunes software. This is where the brainstorm for the Apple IPhone first started.
Just a mere 4 years later, On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs made his ideas, into a real handheld reality. Jobs announced the IPhone that year at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention, and that it would be released later that year, in fact only 5 months later on June 29, 2007 the first IPhone was released. The first ever IPhones released to the public were set at a price point in American currency for $599.00 for the 8GB and $499.00 for the 4GB, even at this price point, this technology was yearned for with such high demand that in the first weekend alone the Apple IPhone had sold between 250,000-700,000 units! It is also estimated that most of those sales were of the more expensive 8GB model. Now with this being said on September 5th, 2007 the 4GB model was completely discontinued and the 8GB model’s price was cut by 1/3 and once again in 2008 on July the 11th with the release of the IPhone 3G Apple and AT&T changed the US pricing model from the previous generation, following the De Facto model for mobile phones service in the United States, AT&T agreed to subsidize a sizable portion of the upfront cost for the IPhone 3G followed by charging moderately higher monthly fees over a minimum two-year contract. Moral of the story is, is that Apple has continued to dominate the technological world especially since the release of the IPhone, with their great marketing concepts and wonderful phone applications and software it is only going to continue to progress from this point forward, as it has, for the last 8 years. Long live the IPhone.
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