Just like this year, CES was held in January in 2007. It featured, among others, Bill Gates, who stated that just having great hardware is not enough these days, and that the connected experience is also needed: "Where people are productive, where they create new things, where they are mobile... that's the key element that's missing here," he stated. Just two days later and a few hundred kilometers away, Steve Jobs presented the world with a new iPhone that fulfilled exactly what Gates was talking about at the time. And although Jobs didn't use the term "post-PC era" at the time, that's exactly what the iPhone definitely ushered in with its arrival.
Apple's smartphone met the requirements for productivity, creativity and mobility - even without an operating system Windows Vista, which Gates was vehemently promoting at the time. The introduction of the first iPhone made history for several reasons. One of them was the way Jobs presented the whole thing. Jobs' speech at the time still serves as a great example of a skillfully managed presentation, during which he managed to briefly summarize everything important about smartphones offered to the world, only to announce in the next moment that the manufacturers were actually doing it all wrong - but that, fortunately, the iPhone is here to he fixed everything.
Jobs began his presentation by summarizing everything that Apple announced in the previous year. For example, this was the transition from Power PC processors to Intel and the determination to complete the transition within a twelve-month horizon. In 2007, Jobs compared the process to a "giant heart transplant" and proudly announced that he Apple managed in just seven months. He also boasted about the success of Macs and the fact that many new owners of Apple computers switched to Macs from Windows, and shared a quote from Microsoft's Jim Allchin who said in 2004, "I would buy a Mac today if I didn't work for Microsoft". He noted that Allchin would soon be retiring and called on branch employees Apple Stores in Seattle to give him the best service.
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"2007 is going to be a good year for the Mac," Jobs promised, among other things, and predicted that the talk would be about more than just the Mac. He started talking about two billion songs sold on iTunes and how the iPod became the most popular player in the world. With the final twenty-four minutes remaining in the presentation, Jobs declared, "This is the day I've been waiting for for two and a half years"—we all know what happened next. A little later, Jobs confided that he didn't bat an eye the night before the Keynote. Some of the engineers watching the presentation were well aware of the reason for his insomnia, and they knew that everything could go completely wrong at any moment during the presentation of an Apple smartphone. The software was not yet finished and the phone was still a work in progress. But in the end, the presentation went well beyond expectations. The iPhone didn't hit store shelves until June, but Apple managed to sell the first million units in just 74 days, and is currently heading Apple to surpass the mark of two billion smartphones sold. Which iPhone model do you think Apple did best?
Definitely ip 4 for me
Which one sold the most.
2G for me
So for me, the legendary iPhone 2g is true that it didn't do anything when it was released, but I was proud of it and I still have it on my shelf