Looking back at Apple’s first iPhone on its 10th anniversary

“Are you getting it?”

He didn’t reveal three devices, though.

Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones since June 29, 2007, but the first iPhone, which launched without an App Store and was restricted to the AT&T Inc network, was limited compared to today’s version.

As it happened, I was finally able to walk into Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue at around 8 at night and get an iPhone.

Apple’s iPhone 8 might have just become the worst-kept secret in the smartphone market. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) owned the market for the early smartphones with its keyboard-equipped BlackBerries and Nokia Oyj (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) was the world’s largest mobile phone vendor, with a almost 38% market share. But it weighed more than a pound, cost around $1,000, and wasn’t very intuitive.

The iPhone is responsible for singlehandedly introducing several features to the masses and opening up new markets for companies and creators.

When AAPL released the iPhone in 2007, the company helped kick off a smartphone revolution. Moreover, the home button was not mechanical anymore and was replaced with a digital lookalike, which only required users to place their thumb on the button instead of pressing it in order to perform the button’s function.

What did we play with on train journeys before proper touchscreen smartphones? “But convergence devices, for the most part, have been spectacular failures”, he said. Munster sees iPhone sales peaking in 2019 and the Glasses initial launch to take place in 2020. Both were the first devices to support Apple Pay.

Rumors say Apple will manage to accomplish what Samsung failed to do and integrate fingerprint scanning capabilities right into the display, which will also occupy the entire front panel of the phone according to reports.

But surprisingly enough, it might have been smarter for an investor to buy the first iPhone, rather than buying Apple’s stock-provided they had the willpower not to actually use it, or even open it.

Coverage of the iPhone that first weekend in Barron’s magazine included a prediction of tough times for BlackBerry and Palm. “To own an iPhone was to own a status symbol”.

Announced in early 2007 and launched exactly 10 years ago today, the original iPhone was perhaps Apple’s biggest gamble.

The pattern changed in 2016, when Apple launched the iPhone 7. The camera set-up could enable augmented reality features (where virtual elements are imposed onto your view of the real world, like Pokemon Go). And companies like Apple, Microsoft and Facebook believe it will fundamentally alter how we interact with computers.

October 14: iPhone 4S goes on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom on Friday, October 14.