{"id":283655,"date":"2026-06-29T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/apples-iphone-went-on-sale-19-years-ago-today-and-changed-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:50:09","slug":"apples-iphone-went-on-sale-19-years-ago-today-and-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/apples-iphone-went-on-sale-19-years-ago-today-and-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s iPhone went on sale 19 years ago today, and changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s iPhone went on sale 19 years ago today, and changed the world<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/29\/apples-original-iphone-went-on-sale-14-years-ago?utm_sourceu003drss<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-29 11:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: appleinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Compared to today’s iPhone 17 Pro Max and what we know of the forthcoming iPhone 18 range, the very first iPhone that went on sale 19 years ago today was startlingly slow and incredibly limited \u2014 yet it changed the world.\n<\/p>\n

It was on June 29, 2007, that the original iPhone went on sale in the US, and arguably that was the day that it truly began shaking up what users expected from a phone.\n<\/p>\n

We and the phone industry had already known all about it for over five months. But it wasn’t until you could buy it that the impact of this little device began to be felt \u2014 even inside Apple.\n<\/p>\n

A prototype board for the original iPhone – Image Credit: Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/p>\n

“[Going on sale] is a happy moment, but it’s also a stressful one,” Apple’s Tony Fadell told the Wall Street Journal for a video released in 2022. “What’s going to happen when it goes out into the world?”\n<\/p>\n

“It was amazing,” said Greg Joswiak, now senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple in the same interview. “I mean, it’s still it just kind of gives me a goosebumps because it was history.”\n<\/p>\n

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Origins of the original iPhone<\/h2>\n

“The start of the iPhone project happened from the iPod project,” said Fadell, best known for his work on Apple’s iPod. “We started seeing these feature phones with cameras starting to add digital music features, tools in your phone.”\n<\/p>\n

“And it was clear at some point they might be able to catch up with us with this lead that we had with the iPod,” he continued. “We were saying… what is the future of the iPod? And if people have two devices in their hand, which one would they pick up every time?”\n<\/p>\n

How the original iPhone was received<\/h2>\n

Most of the concerns and criticisms of the original iPhone now seem peculiar, but chiefly because the iPhone itself has reshaped our ideas of what is normal. At the time, the best smartphones had certain key features that the iPhone lacked, and many people cared.\n<\/p>\n

For instance, it was then a big deal that the battery was sealed and…<\/p>\n

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