Happy Birthday Dear iPhone, Happy 15th Birthday to you! The iPhone was first released 15 years ago on this date!
15 years ago today long lines of consumers were wrapped around Apple Stores trying to get inside to buy Apple's hot new product, the iPhone. On June 29th, 2007, Apple released the first-generation iPhone and the world was never the same again. The device had already been introduced with great fanfare on January 9th, and it took Apple and its supply-chain more than five months to build enough handsets to sell.The OG iPhone was not perfect.
These days, an iPhone launch that resulted in 1 million units sold in the first 74 days would be considered a huge failure and you'd be reading about the many Apple investors who committed suicide by jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge. For example, the latest info we have shows that 1.7 million to 2 million iPhone 12 units were bought during the first 24 hours of availability.
Soon, cheaper smartphones and older iPhone models brought pricing down to the point that almost everyone who wanted a smartphone could buy one. You could not walk the streets of Manhattan without seeing everyone looking down at their phones. Also failing to read the room correctly were Research In Motion co-chief executives Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. RIM was the company behind the popular BlackBerry phones known for their physical keyboards and mobile e-mail platform. Some of their quotes explain why the iPhone eventually surpassed BlackBerry."As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge.
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