A brief history of the iPhone
Steve Jobs called the first iPhone“magic.” It was a customary bit of showmanship from Apple’s late-founder, but a decade after that announcement, it’s difficult to overstate the profound impact the smartphone has had on the mobile industry.

The first iPhone was met with cautious excitement by many in the press — after all, where did the company get off thinking it could replace a physical keyboard with a touchscreen? But all these years later, the device still serves at the template for a majority of modern smartphones. In the intervening decade, the company has redefined the category time and again, starting the following year, when Apple revolutionized mobile software with the introduction of the App Store.

Here’s a quick look back at the ups and downs of a decade of iPhone, starting with a little bit of pre-history.

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1993 – The Apple Newton

In 1993, the world wasn’t ready for the Apple Newton MessagePad — or maybe it wasn’t ready for the world. The answer is probably a bit of both. Apple’s first shot at an all-screen mobile computing device was a bit of a wash, in spite of then-groundbreaking innovations like handwriting recognition. The personal assistant carried a $699 price tag (around $1,181 in 2017 money) and weighed in at north of a pound. It would take nearly a decade and a half for the company to really nail mobile computing, but the Newton was an important predecessor to the iPhone and iPad, and at least we got a classicSimpsons bit out of it.






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2001 – The iPod

The iPod is the platonic ideal of an Apple product. It wasn’t the first MP3 by any stretch of the imagination, nor was iTunes anywhere close to being the first digital music player. But Apple was arguably the first to really get the category right, through a dead-simple syncing system and hardware controls. Within a few years, the brand name would become synonymous with the category, starting with the once amazing promise of putting “1,000 songs in your pocket.”


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2005 – Motorola Rokr E1

In 2005, Motorola was sitting pretty, thanks to the success..... Continue reading at http://www.itk.com.ng/technology/mobile-phones-and-tablets/brief-history-apples-iphone/