The video goes back to the moment when Apple sold the first iPhone.
12 years ago, things changed when Apple released the iPhone. There are long lines of people queuing around the Apple Store, many even camp for days waiting to spend $ 499 ($ 11.6 million) to own the 4GB iPhone version and $ 599 (about VND 13.93 million) for the iPhone 8GB model.
The phone was previously launched by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9 that year and immediately attracted the attention of the public and the media. The first smartphone with a sleek design, a new "airflow" for the smartphone industry has only focused on business users.
Close up of the first iPhone.
Although the first iPhone barely ran fast (still running on AT & T’s slow network such as EDGE and Wi-Fi networks), features such as a touch screen, multitouch and a large 3.5-inch screen is the key to winning Apple. In addition, the device also does not have MMS or video recording capability, users cannot cut and paste text and without 3G, the iPhone cannot receive calls while the browser is being used.
The iPhone has helped Apple achieve a market capitalization of $ 1,000 billion
The emergence of iPhone has made the world phone market divided into two branches. Steve Ballmer - Microsoft’s CEO laughed and pointed out that the lack of a keyboard will make the iPhone unattractive for businesses. He predicted that Apple would only get 2% to 3% of the market but soon he had to admit that he was wrong. Even a month after launching the iPhone, BlackBerry Balsillie - CEO of BlackBerry still does not show concern.
Meanwhile, other companies have responded by trying to copy the iPhone. Even feature phones like LG Voyager and Samsung also carry touch screens. The iPhone actually integrated 3 devices: music player, phone and internet access device into a single device
The first iPhone case.
From June 29 to the end of 2007, Apple sold 1.39 million iPhones and then increased to 11.63 million units in 2008. This number then increased steadily, reaching the highest level of 231, 22 million in 2015. It can be said, trying to CEO Steve Jobs bet the entire company on this device.
And the success of the iPhone led to the launch of the App Store app store in 2008 and the iPad tablet, then the Apple Watch smart watch. Last year, Apple became America’s first publicly traded company worth $ 1,000 billion and the iPhone XR is the best-selling smartphone this year.
Iphone Xs, iPhone Xr and iPhone Xs Max (from left).
Last year, Apple introduced three different iPhone models, from the "more affordable" iPhone XR to iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Over the years, "Apples" has repeatedly encountered problems with Antennagate (antenna misplaced), Bendgate (bent iPhone by hand) and Batterygate (slowing down the old iPhone). However, iPhone 2010 (iPhone 4), 2012 (iPhone 5), 2014 (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus), 2016 (iPhone 7) and 2017 (iPhone X) are still the best products.
The iPhone screen size has expanded from the original 3.5-inch screen to 6.5 inches (iPhone Xs Max). Features such as FaceTime camera, Siri virtual assistant, Touch ID fingerprint scanner and Face ID face scanning were added. And after 12 years, the completely new iPhone 11 series is about to be sold in the next 3 months.
