Watch Steve Jobs unveil the very first iPhone 10 years ago today
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Steve Jobs.
It wasn't the first "smartphone," or the first phone with a camera. It wasn't the first mobile device to have a touchscreen, or to let users install apps. (In fact, the app store didn't even launch until 2008, a year after the first iPhone was released!)
But it tied numerous disparate features together in a cohesive, well-designed whole - kickstarting a mobile revolution that has transformed the modern world.
Today's app economy is bigger than Hollywood, and WhatsApp, Snapchat, Uber, Tinder, and more are essential parts of modern culture, collectively used by hundreds of millions of people around the globe every day. Seven years ago, none of that existed.
Announcing the first iPhone, on-stage at the Macworld conference in 2007, the late Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs was not humble about the device's possibilities. You can watch the full keynote below - or read on for the story behind it.
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