How the iPhone Was Born [Video]

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Posted June 26, 2017 at 3:33am by Shalom Levytam

The WSJ has published a look back at how the original iPhone was created.

On the iPhone’s 10th birthday, former Apple executives Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell and Greg Christie recount the arduous process of turning Steve Jobs’s vision into one of the best-selling products ever made.

Announced on January 9, 2007 the original iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007. Click here to see the original four reviewers reminisce about the device.

Take a look at the video below...

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D4xM4Nx - June 26, 2017 at 6:46am

It takes the imagination of an exceptional man carrying through his vision to change the way things are and gives us all a quantum leap in experiences tech related. Thanks again Steve, your legacy will continue permeating generations to come. Happy 10th anniversary iPhone, proud and happy fan here. :)

Troll Hunter - June 26, 2017 at 6:09am

iPhone man.....not only did it save Apple from dying....it started the smartphone touchscreen revolution. But should have evolved by now as a full fledged OSX Mac...Geez, back in 2007, to think pushing your finger on a glass and go on the internet was major....People really thought that the iPhone 2g (again back in 2006/07) was really a tiny legit Mac OSX computer essentially with this new "touchscreen" technology...Remember...touchscreen monitors in cash registers started this year as well so people auto assumed the iPhone 2G was literally a computer. It was not until the 3G was launched that's when the notion I have above noted, shifted from development of personal mini computers to the now infamous "Smartphone Era". Other companies jumping on the band wagon during the iPhone 3G launch (Samsung, Sony, Motorola) further accented and shaped the smartphone era. I personally am one of those guys back in '07 thinking the iPhone 2G was a "Mac in your pocket", full fledged computer. That this was Apples answer to the "Palm Pilot". Point is wish the iPhone was really more so catered as a computer rather a smartphone...regardless it was revolutionary. But not anymore. The iPhone now has become the "Cadillac" of smartphones...no major changes...just cosmetic and bigger engine by a little each year...make it so I can mount a dmg...make it so that it can load and upload attachments to email. Have a "Macintosh HD" icon on it so I can access the iPhone like a mac..

qba - June 26, 2017 at 5:28am

Agree with Steve Jobs, humans needs to be push to the Limits.

Troll Hunter - June 26, 2017 at 6:32am

Read my post. That's how you push you Apple Engineers to the limit...its been 10 years...still trying to attach a zip file...

Abeo - June 26, 2017 at 3:56am

Wooooow, that's just something else.The birthing of the iPhone was just amazing. Revolutionary indeed.

komo - June 26, 2017 at 9:57am

what Revolutionary no fast charging no dual sim cards no extranl memory card and the control center is weak you have to go to setting to turn data on. btw my fisrt iphone is 4s the last one 7

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