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Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)

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History and cultureMobile developmentHistory of computingInside tech companies

Steve Jobs unveils the original iPhone, presenting it as a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough internet communicator.

On January 9, 2007 Apple introduced the iPhone. The iPhone was a revolutionary product from Apple and it changed the way smart phones look in work. This video is from MacWorld 2007 were Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone (1st Gen. / 2G).

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What people say. Widely considered one of the greatest product presentations in tech history, demonstrating a massive leap in mobile user experience.

pfarrellon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?”

…ltics, one the most influential operating systems. The Mother of All Demos 4: even better than Steve Jobs keynotes Steve Jobs iPhone introduction 5: I’m not a huge fan of Mr Jobs, but this is one of the best presentations ever. It’s not history, per se, but very interesting through our eyes. 0: link 1: link 2: link 3: link 4: link 5: link to this video…
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publicfigon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android”

If you have the chance, it really is worth going back and watching the original iPhone release video. It's pretty amazing to see some of the things that were so new and exciting a few years ago now so much a part of the phone landscape that we can't even imagine a phone without them. It's almost more amazing to see how basic it seems compared to what we have now, just 6 years later. link to this video
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eriknstron Hacker News • Mentions

On “The war Microsoft should have won”

I agree. Just look at the announcement of the first iPhone by Steve Jobs at link to this video and notice that the focus on iPod accounts for a good part of the sales argument.
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Confikson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection”

I'm completely ignorant about any iOS music player, having only every seriously used Android, but didn't the first iPhone have such a feature already? Such as showcased in the famous reveal video: link to this video Did it get removed?
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ihumanon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The phone-makers bringing back buttons”

…ed in computers 20 years ago. We solved it with a bit-mapped screen that could display anything we want. Put any user interface up. And a pointing device. We solved it with the mouse. We solved this problem. So how are we going to take this to a mobile device? What we’re going to do is get rid of all these buttons and just make a giant screen. 0 link to this video…
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Brendinoooon Hacker News • Mentions

On “HEAD – A guide to <head> elements”

Legacy reasons. When the iPhone came out, "mobile only" sites were a wasteland of terrible UI and restricted features. iPhone OS wanted to serve full websites, and sometimes had to do weird things to beat the kind of stuff that sniffed for mobile devices, or to overcome the lack of a mouse on a desktop website. If you look at the original iPhone demo in 20070, the original intent was to render full web pages on the screen and rely on the double-tap-to-zoom to read content. The article that's generally credited with naming and mainstreaming Responsive Web Design1 didn't come until 2010. 0: link to this video 1: link
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yregon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Cotton Candy (2010)”

Check out this part of Steve's 2007 iPhone keynote. link to this video There was no responsive web then. These column-based grid sites worked alright. For the first year or so I disliked the sites that redirected me to a mobile version (like m.wikipedia.org), since I considered my iPhone perfectly capable of rendering the desktop version.
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davnicwilon Hacker News • Mentions

On “18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated”

I visited this on mobile expecting it to be a laugh, but was surprised to find that it's actually amazing! You can see the whole page in a single column, and just pinch zoom to the bit you're interested in to read/interact. Scrolling downwards and sideways to pan around works fine, super intuitive. The UX of this is so great, feels just like that original iPhone demo 1. ...why don't we do this again? 1 link to this video
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codeulikeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?”

This should be at the top. Until that iPhone unveil, no-one had ever seen swipe-to-scroll, now its second nature to at least half the planet. Video of the 2007 unveil: link to this video
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chrisco255on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Apple’s Vision Pro Is a $3,500 Ticket to Nowhere”

The first iPhone not only had GPS, it had Google Maps built in. Here's the timestamp of Jobs's 2007 presentation, showing the feature: link to this video Selfie camera was out by the following year. Flashlight was implemented as an app very early on after app store came out. The original version most definitely had gyroscope and compass. Mass appeal was very much already there when iPhone launched. But it was hamstrung a bit by 2.5G and the exclusive deal with AT&T. Remember, mobile phones used to come with 2 year contracts with heavy cancellation penalties, and 3G took a while to roll out to the U.S. market. Still, it was a smashing success in its first year with 10 million units sold. Remember, back…
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