Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, debuts the iPhone in 2007.
On January 9, 2007, Jobs introduced the world to a new sort of phone, one that would do to cellphones what the Macintosh had done to personal computers in 1984 – revolutionise how we used them while making them significantly easier to use. Of fact, the iPhone, like the Macintosh in 1984, was not a flawless technology. It was not without defects. But, like the Macintosh in 1984, the iPhone triumphed above its flaws due to its intrinsic merits.
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