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On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsi
ng capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and bla
ck mock turtleneck, called the iPhone a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobi
le phone.ö When it went on sale in the United States six months later, on June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers lin
ed up at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to purchase an iPhone.
In November 2007—by which point more than 1.4 million iPhones had been sold—Time magazine named the sleek, 4.8-ounce device, or
iginally available in a 4GB, $499 model and an 8GB, $599 model, its invention of the year. The iPhone went on sale in parts of
Europe in late 2007, and in parts of Asia in 2008. In July 2008, Apple launched its online App Store, enabling people to downlo
ad software applications that let them use their iPhones for games, social networking, travel planning and an every growing lau
ndry list of other activities. Apple went on to over 10 updated models of the iPhone.
The iPhone helped turned Apple, which Jobs (1955-2011) co-founded with his friend Stephen Wozniak in California in 1976, into o
ne of the planet’s most valuable corporations. In 2012, five years after the iPhone’s debut, more than 200 million had been sol
d. The iPhone joined a list of innovative Apple products, including the Macintosh (launched in 1984, it was one of the first pe
rsonal computers to feature a graphical user interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rathe
r than typing commands) and the iPod portable music player (launched in 2001), that became part of everyday modern life.
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