16 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s first iPhone. pic.twitter.com/DalLoayrQs
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 9, 2023
16 years ago today, on January 9th 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's very first iPhone at the Macworld 2007 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The iPhone incorporated a 3.5-inch multi-touch display with few hardware buttons, and ran the iPhone OS operating system with a touch-friendly interface, then marketed as a version of Mac OS X. It launched on June 29, 2007, at a starting price of US$499 in the United States, and required a two-year contract with Cingular (now AT&T). The iPhone would remain exclusive to Cingular/AT&T for 4 years until 2011. It would change the mobile phone game forever, and ended the careers of the Sidekick, Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola RAZR, among several others.

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