06-29-2007 First iPhone is sold
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| Description: | Engineering Pathway's "Today in History" blog for June 29. "Today in History - June 29, 2007 -The first Apple iPhone is sold. The initial price tag of $600 limited sales to early adapters and Apple fans, of which there were many (photo of waiting line upper left). The price was reduced to $400 soon afterwards and in 2008 the iPhone 3G at $200 released the flood gates of demand. Apple sold over 10 million iPhone 3G units worldwide within five months of its release. Three years later there is competition from other vendors, but the release of Apple's iPhone 4 sales still topped 1.7 million in a few days after its launch on June 24, 2010. "This is the most successful product launch in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply." Photo caption (upper right): "Wearing iPhone placards on their heads, two Japanese customers show off their iPhone 4 at a mobile phone store in Tokyo on June 24. Hundreds of Apple fans braved sweltering humidity to form giant queues in an upscale Tokyo district in a race to be among the first in the world to get their hands on the latest iPhone." I do have an older iPhone and am still learning the features on this one. I think I'll wait for more before I get an upgrade. I am reminded though of HP's first pocket calculator, the HP35 released on February 1, 1972. I was an undergraduate engineering student and my parents bought me the next version, the HP45. I still carried both it and my slide rule around on my belt - really. Primates love our gadgets. Did you know that the the first ball point pen went on sale in 1945 at a price tag equivalent to $150 in today's money? 8,000 people are reported to have swarmed a New York Department story to by them on the first day of sale." |
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