Apple Iphone

A Brief History of the Apple iPhone

Apple has a long standing reputation for always coming out with modern products that are geared to cater to the masses. Before the Apple iPhone was released in June 2007 there was a lot of commotion about what it would be like and what type of particular details the new product would have. It stands to reason, because the Apple iPhone is one of the most innovative products that joins together the technology of iPods, a radical cell phone with a useful internet device, all this combined is like having three products in one.

The iPhone Beginning

The vision for the Apple iPhone was eventually thought of after Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, had a conference meeting with some of the engineers to start researching ways to develop the touch screen which was most likely intended for Apple’s tablet PC. However, in April 2003, he declared in a conference that the development of traditional PDAs or tablet PCs was not the way ahead for Apple.

New innovations perhaps lie in the realm of cell phones, and technologies that are connected to them and should be improved upon. In January 2007 during the MacWorld Expo, Apple announced it’s soon to be released new iPhone product would be available by June 2007. It was also declared in a later conference that the Apple iPhone will support third parties creating Web 2.0 applications, of which users would be able to access on the internet.

Made Public and More Developments

Apple iPhone eventually went on sale June 29, 2007 in the United States, and hundreds of people reportedly lined up in front of the shops to be able to grab the new Apple iPhone as soon as possible. The iPhone was originally released in two variations, one, with a flash drive of 4 GB for $499 and the 8 GB version for $599, however the sales of the 8 GB far outnumbered the other one, which was eventually discontinued.

Moreover, as a further development, the price was radically reduced by $200 in September, for which Apple was quite widely attacked because the sudden drop in price was believed to be unfair. Apple iPhone’s initial popularity was not close to the level Apple had anticipated it would be.

For example, the sales for the first weekend were initially estimated to be somewhere between 200,000 and 700,000 products. However, only approximately 145,000 iPhone activations were registered that first weekend.

One downfall was that the applications offered on the Apple iPhone, could only be activated buy getting a two year subscription with AT&T, which was a restriction many people did not appreciate. Catching the attention of the media was the story of a 300 page bill someone received from AT&T, since then changes have been made in their invoice statements.

The Apple iPhone was released internationally in France, the United Kingdom, Europe and Germany, towards the end of 2007. However, in Europe, Apple seemed to face legal difficulties because the iPhone was only offered through one selected company.