The Apple iPhone turns 16 today! - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

Exactly 16 years agone Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the signifier astatine MacWorld to present a marque caller merchandise – arsenic Jobs described it, it was a widescreen iPod with interaction controls, a revolutionary mobile telephone and a breakthrough Internet communicator.

The iPhone would spell connected to eclipse the iPod euphony players, the past of which was discontinued past year. Not lone that, but the iPhone is present Apple’s astir important merchandise by far. Look astatine the company’s astir caller earnings report, the iPhone brought successful a nett $42 billion, much than the Mac, iPad and wearables combined.

On this time successful 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. pic.twitter.com/1QWsD9AvU1

Speaking of, the iPads branched disconnected the iPhone and are presently the starring tablet successful the world. The acquisition Apple gained portion designing iPhone and iPad chipsets led it to interruption distant from Intel and power the Macs to ARM-based chips too.

The iPhone besides became the bosom of a affluent ecosystem of accessories – from headphones to smartwatches – which bring successful billions of dollars each 4th arsenic well.

Love it oregon hatred it, the iPhone has been 1 of the astir influential products successful the past mates of decades and has helped signifier the mobile manufacture during that time.

So, let’s each privation the iPhone a blessed birthday. If you privation a deed of nostalgia, you tin cheque retired our Counterclockwise bid – part 1 and part 2 – that chronicled the aboriginal days of the iPhone.

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