The Untold History of iPhone

Apple's fight to bring the iPhone to life!

January 9, 2007. San Francisco California. Mere minutes before he put sneaker to stage for the biggest keynote in history, Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, called his team together and told them to remember this moment. This one, last moment… before the iPhone. Because everything was about to change.

This is the secret origin of the iPhone, the sometimes painful decisions Steve Jobs and Apple had to make to bring the most important product in consumer history to life!

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[frappuccino]

Yes to the Eric Schmidt story. Very interesting and informative, René. Thanks!

[PolishMoon]

These are the types of videos where you shine the most, Rene. I knew most of this and still thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. Happy holidays and merry Christmas!

[tdrg_]

Man that’s what I call quality content! Keep it up!

[Markrspooner]

Great Video Rene, really fascinating story, would love to have more of this type of stuff. It really shows how many decisions and a bit of luck goes into a great product

[davemeise]

I remember I had a couple of Palms before my first iPhone (3a). The last one I had was the Palm Tungsten. They were good for their time.

[droningharry]

I really enjoy it Rene when you deep dive into a subject of Apple History. I remember so well and had my iPhone by Nov. 2007 the next week I showed it off at my Breakfast group, the following week 4 of the other 10 guys had iPhones. All of us are still big tech geeks, great video and thanks.

[DaryleHamel]

Great info- especially liked the insight as to why some features, like the ability to send pics via SMS, were absent from such an evolutionary tech product.

[MIX]

Rene, you outdid yourself with this history.. thank you for educating us on the iPhone histroy...

[PointWithin]

This was awesome. Love nerding out on Apple history

[Tristin]

Wow, I never knew that Verizon was offered the iPhone first. Just imagine how they felt in the 2-3 years when the iPhone market was locked down by AT&T!

[brucemckay]

I had a Palm bollocks…then iPhone… and I’ve never looked back… that Jan 2007 presentation is the best ever…. The best for any company ever!!!!

[yankeexpress]

Schmidt definitely double-crossed Steve and Apple with assdroid.

[voscorash]

Amazing work as always, Rene. Thank you for the love and care that you put into your stories and videos.

[joselde]

Yes yes yes make the video on the apple/google partnership at the inception of the iPhone, please. The lawsuits, the fall out and the good times too.

[mchief]

This was an awesome video!! I’d love to see a video about Eric Schmidt and google double crossing apple

[Queldonus]

A physical home button being an anchor point to less tech savvy customers is still important to this day. I work for Apple with our retail partners. The comment I hear most from customers not wanting to upgrade a very old phone is “I don’t want to loose the home button.”
The 2nd generation SE having not just the physical home button, but the exact shape and feel of the 6, 7, &8 makes it so much easier for someone to transition to a new phone. But it’s the home button that matters most.

[clintmiller]

This is absolutely the 🔥 of narration. Your voice man is made for this!

[forneverarrow]

A very special video Rene! Thank you very much!!

[jeffhale]

Thanks for sharing this history. I enjoyed your video very much. Blessings on your day.

[jefftc]

Great video Rene. Please please do the iOS-android story.