Steve Jobs announced the ‘revolutionary’ iPhone exactly eight years ago

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It is Friday, exactly eight years ago that Applebaas Steve Jobs the first iPhone announced during a keynote. Even the biggest optimist had then not be able to predict that the mobile phone of the company in the Us so immensely popular it would be.

“This is a day where I am two and a half years go, I lived. Once in a while there appears a revolutionary product that changes everything.” With those words announced in 2007, the then Apple boss Steve Jobs the first iPhone to – and he was right.

The words were typical for Jobs and Apple under his reign. Jobs was a charismatic man, who in a pleasant way and with powerful words, knew how to present. It is not for nothing that one of the biggest Apple fan sites of the Netherlands, One More Thing, is called to the bouncer in some of his keynotes.

Partly because Jobs are way of presenting took the popularity of the iPhone. His product announcements were in fact different than that of many competitors. They were filled with marketingpraat; many products were magical or revolutionary and would change the world.

Under the guidance of Jobs, who in 2011 died, grew Apple with the iPhone has become one of the most important players in the technological world. It was said that Jobs concerning matters such as the design of new products determined, whereby he eye for detail. According to a senior official of Google called Jobs him the day before the introduction of the first iPhone to say that the second ‘o’ in the Google logo on the iPhone in the wrong color yellow – with “the urgent request” is the error recover fast.

Within a short time took the popularity of the iPhone until 2008, also in the Netherlands, a solid foundation was laid. T-Mobile brought in July of that year the iPhone 3G, which is still before the end of the year, 100,000 times was sold. Gradually there came more applications, which are often also users of an iPod Touch to use it.

If you thought the iPhone will be a temporary hype, after all these years cheated released. The iPhone, the iPhone 6, the latest version is, is still doing well. And the growth in the sales of the phone flattens out probably wasn’t: at the end of last year there were in the last quarter, less than 39.3 million of sold. A significant growth, which then already eight years the technologiewereld deals.

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