Apple Announces the First Ever iPhone

On January 9, 2007 Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, announces the first ever iPhone.  After the Macintosh computer and the iPod this was a highly anticipated release. He first announced this at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. This immidaelty started the hype for its release for sale a few months later on June 29th. However this was not the first Apple phone. Many people don't know this but Apple had teamed up with Motorola in 2005 to release the ROKR E1 mobile phone. This collaboration between Apple and Motorola was for the sole purpose of iTunes. Steve Jobs was worried that another company was going to release a phone that was capable of playing music so he had to do it first. This Motorola phone was able to play music through iTunes. Steve Jobs was not happy with this phone because of the terrible camera, cheap look, got a 100 song limit on iTunes. However, this failure lead to a huge success for Apple. Here you can view a list of other failures Apple ran into when creating or updating the iPhones throughout the years. Because of the problems with the Motorola phone, Apple was set out to build something better- and that’s exactly what they did. Steve wanted a phone that was able to play music when in fact it did much more than that. At the same time Apple introduced safari which we still used to this day as our main source of Internet. Not only was it capable of many things but it was easy to use which was very new for this time. It was the first phone to use multi touch as well. This means it was a touchscreen that can use your fingers (many of them at once) without using a stylus. This invention along with the iPhone changed the industry and world all at once. The first iPhone was five years ahead of any phone out on the market at the time. In November 2007 they had sold 1.4 million phones and five years later they had reached 200 million phones sold. Each phone was sold at $500 or $600 a piece which added to Apple‘s financial success.

This invention changed our world in a huge way. It made access to the Internet, social media and music right at our fingertips. This was huge for the communication industry in many ways. It was easy to communicate with others through phone. It also had better message sending which was huge for daily communication. This also started the age of social media. Once this phone was available and offered apps it allowed for people to create media platforms as well as many other applications which is now a huge industry. It also completely changed the music industry which is very important to communication. In terms of negative affects of the iPhone I think we can say that many devices have created the social media issue. The first iPhone was a major breakthrough in technology but along with more technology comes more opportunities for negative affects when taken too far. I don’t think that the first iPhone necessarily created this issue but sparked an industry for social media that we had not had access to before this phone. Despite all of this, Time Magazine named the iPhone the invention of the year which it rightfully deserved. iPhone has updated several times since with almost one new iPhone a year. It is arguably one of the most successful inventions the world has ever seen considering almost everyone across the world either has one or is very familiar with the product.