This Day in History:, Steve Jobs
Debuts the iPhone.
January 9, 2007.
Dressed in his jeans and black turtleneck,
the Apple CEO unveiled the iPhone at
the Macworld convention in San Francisco.
Jobs called the iPhone a
“revolutionary and magical product that is
literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.”.
Originally available in a 4GB, $499 model
and an 8GB, $599 model, 'Time' magazine
named it the invention of the year.
When it went on sale in June,
thousands of customers lined up
at Apple stores across the country
to be among the first to buy it.
The iPhone helped turn
Apple into one of the planet’s
most valuable corporations.
In 2012, five years after
the iPhone’s debut, more
than 200 million had been sold
