Watching the First iPhone Event, 17 Years Later!

On January 9th, 2007, the first iPhone was unveiled to the world by Steve Jobs, and nothing has ever been the same since. Today, let's watch that original iPhone event together, exactly 17 years later!

0:00 - Intro
1:20 - iPod, Apple TV
9:56 - iPhone
21:54 - iPod Demo
26:57 - Phone Demo
36:33 - Internet Demo
46:55 - Google & Yahoo CEOs
49:26 - Comparisons & Pricing
58:41 - Technical Difficulties; 2006 Market
1:00:44 - Apple ̶C̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶, Inc.
1:02:23 - Conclusion

[Tech]

This video was posted, to the day, 17 years after the iPhone was unveiled - January 9th, 2007.
Originally, I planned to have this out for Christmas but uh, then I got COVID, but hey- this works out pretty well. Hope you all enjoy; I know I really did.

[megatronskneecap]

To know that all of the engineers were drunk back stage just to get rid of the anxiety of knowing the iPhone that was on that stage was not at all fully functioning and Steve just pulling it off literally switching iPhones between the demo's when it wasn't working like nobody's business is something of a masterminds game.

[TheCentristChad]

Young people will never understand how terrible the internet and mobile products were. The iPhone was the first useable mobile phone for normal people. The only downside was the battery which got bigger over the years

[tburden]

The reason Apple didn’t call the Apple TV iTV is because here in Britain we have a TV channel called iTV and they told Apple no you can’t do that.

[nelsn]

The 20th anniversary is gonna be a multi-part documentary series at this rate. In the meantime, I’ve got something good to watch.

[TheGaragebandGuide]

07:24 not sure if related, but ITV was an already trademarked TV channel in the UK

[megatronskneecap]

How the hell are we only 3 years away from the iPhone being a 20-year-old invention? Damn two decades is tough.

[ArtakaWorksStudio]

I dont know why, but Vista and the iPhone being released on the same year feels so weird...

2007 feels like a true liminal space year. I also find it amazing that the gap between the latest iPhone 15 and the first iPhone is the same between the original 1984 Macintosh and the iPod (17 years).

Edit: I was 12 years old at the time, so its probably just sone strange case of nostalgia thats exclusive to Zillenials.

[mattalki]

When the iPhone came out, it was subsidized $450 by the carrier for the 2 year contract. That means they were $950/$1050 on launch. It's amazing to watch Steve show off his products. It's something that is greatly missed in the newer keynotes. If he had lived, he'd still be out there giving keynotes.

[kuropixeljp]

I usually watch these past Apple keynotes as they are, but it's great to see you watching and providing commentary. Hope you do this again with other events at some point.

[jayb]

However you feel about Apple or Steve Jobs, you have to give the man respect as a salesman. There's just something about the way he presented his products. Listening to him still makes me want to buy an original iPhone today, even though it's long obsolete by current standards.

[mr_matteorinaldi]

7:22 correct me if i'm wrong, but I think they couldn't go for the iTV name since there is already a british independent tv broadcast network called ITV, and probably this is the major decisive factor on the change of name to Apple TV

[PointWithin]

iPhone had the first real web browsing experience. Looked exactly like it did in laptops and desktops and that was revolutionary at the time. That really got my attention.

[patrickwalsh]

It's funny that around 30 minutes into this video Steve makes the world's first call on an iPhone. Surely as historic as the first ever mobile phone call way back in the 1970s on a phone the size of a breeze block! 😀

[Igoras]

Fresh stuff! Cant wait to watch. I've know every single word by word of this presentation : >

[thenormalone]

The legacy of the first iPhone isn't just newer iPhone models but all smartphones. It was the first generation execution of a brilliant idea.

[nukfauxsho]

I watched this the day after it was announced and I was sold. I got it a month after release (it was my first cell phone I purchased myself and my first “smartphone”) loved that phone.

[MythicSuns]

Annoyingly in the UK there's a surprising number of carriers that still *STILL* don't support Visual Voicemail.

[moe]

When he says it runs OS X he means it uses Darwin. Even to this day all still use Darwin at their core.

[soup]

about steve pranking the local starbucks:
"Ying Hang "Hannah" Zhang is still a barista at that Starbucks location and hasn't forgotten the fateful day Apple's visionary rang her up. "I feel very happy and lucky that I had a chance to actually talk to him, " she said of the brief, seconds-long chat."