Apple's Sept 9th Event a DECADE AGO Compared to Now: U2, Apple Watch, Bendgate & More

In 2014, Apple put U2 on everyone’s iPhones — and that wasn’t the only drama to come from one event. With iPhone 16 on the way, CNET’s Bridget Carey looks back on the awkward Apple moments from a decade ago.

0:00 Apple’s Rough iPhone Launch 10 Years Ago
1:24 Bendgate and the Thinnest iPhone
2:45 iOS 8 Released and Quickly Updated
3:39 Tim Cook Debuts First Apple Watch(es)
5:35 Apple Pay on the Subway
6:17 U2 Finds Some Days Are Better Than Others
8:11 Did U2 Ruin Freebies Forever?
9:15 All The Music That You Can't Leave Behind

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[ylihao]

7:39 Did not expect to see young Bridget here lol

[mariusgabrielbudai]

I love Bridget so much! 💖💖 Her videos are always so fun to watch: you learn a lot of things, while getting entertained by her personality and enjoying her funny jokes!

[theroachmotel]

Seeing the younger you and the Miami herald caused me to look you up and I see you are a fellow Gator and from my home town. Very cool. The wife and I enjoy your stuff. Keep on keeping on 😃

[richv]

Never going to forgive U2 or Apple for placing that damn album in my library. Bring back music ownership, hate this music subscription crap.

[foilpainterfantasyartist]

I still have my iPod which I just recently found and it still works as I remember what songs I had back then

[mikeshafer]

I think Apple should make an Apple ring that still works with Apple pay, 2FA, and tracks my steps and sleep etc. Very simple. I love my Apple Watch but I don't like wearing it every day or at night.

[MarcoTrafecanteLamboy]

I don’t use it but I still have an iPod shuffle, touch and classic

[Jayden-lrmm]

Ah yes the bendgating iphone 6, who could forget

[kris_torres]

I got the U2 reference at the very end of this video. 😅

[SleepyPossums]

I’m curious if you’ll really miss wireless earbuds, and if navigating that old iPod Mini will still be novel after the simplicity of making playlists on our phones?

[ninjanerdstudent]

Thank goodness for Musicolet. That is the only mp3 player I ever want.

[MB-pqyy]

This is a great video! Ms. Carey is a delight. Thanks.

[DoctorVadarWho]

If you still need a wallet, just buy an Apple wallet case then you have your phone and wallet in one

[beachbumsailordude]

UM yeah! Those of us who spent 20+ years building massive and expensive CD libraries and then a year or two ripping MP3's from them haven't given up that format. We already have the music we like. it's already on our devices. it's backed up in multiple places. We don't have to pay a monthly service fee. We can rerip it again if there is ever a need. One final and most important point is that NOBODY and I mean NOBODY is going to wake up one day and decide they are pulling their content away from us.

[nurbati]

Hey whats your phone case in 5:55 (payment in subway)? Looks awesome

[aiwama]

Apple showed tons of arrogance with the U2 album debacle. Imagine assuming that everybody on the planet (from Austria to Zimbabwe) loved U2 and would thank Apple for a free album that you couldn't even remove from iTunes!?

[onebadn]

Holy crap! That iPod thing is too funny. Earlier this summer I dug out my original first gen iPod video and started listening to it in my car. The nostalgia of going back to those songs from the late 90s and early 00s has been bringing back so many good memories from high school and college, the Napster years, limewire, and more. You should definitely do a video on how ipoding again works for you.

[richtaylor]

My iphone 6 never bent. But then I took care of mine.

[Sted]

I remember getting it on my iPod Touch which I still carry with me because I prefer to actually possess music. So much so that I've repurposed my previous phone into a media player

I am keeping faith that enough people choose to keep their music separate that the iPod makes a return

[gregp.]

Just got in my hands that square 2”x2” all-screen iPod mini after many years and it’s still working great!