logo
episode-header-image
Jan 2017
1h 3m

127. The History of the iPhone, On Its 1...

Brian McCullough
About this episode

"So… Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod… a phone… and an internet communicator… An iPod, a phone… are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device! And we are calling it iPhone.”

- Steve Jobs, January 9, 2007

Those words have become so famous in the history of technology that I imagine a large percentage of listeners have them memorized. Ten years ago this Monday, January 9, Steve Jobs stood on stage and announced the iPhone to the world. It was the crowning achievement in the career of the greatest technologist of our time, the moment that the modern era of computing began.

On the ten year anniversary of the birth of the iPhone, this is the story of that moment and the history of that device which can take a rightful place alongside the original Macintosh, the first IBM PC, the Apple I, the Altair 8800, the DEC PDP-8, the IBM System/360 and the ENIAC as one of most important machines to have brought computing into everyday life.

 


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Up next
May 2019
195. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industry at AdMob; is credited by some peop ... Show More
1h 24m
Apr 2019
194. The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic's Dane Jasper
Today we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us all the time, but there are amazing entrepreneurial stories about how that crucial infrastructure was laid. Today we talk to Sonic founder Dane Jaspe ... Show More
1h 25m
Oct 2021
203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email
Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.Strik ... Show More
34m 18s
Recommended Episodes
Jan 2022
The Apple Ad That Changed the World (Replay)
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 22, 1984. Apple launches the very first Macintosh computer, unveiling the machine to the public in a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. Not only was the ad itself revolutionary, but the ... Show More
20m 50s
Dec 2023
TechStuff Classic: The Macintosh Story Part 1
What's the origin story for the Macintosh computer? We look at the early days of Apple leading up to the launch of one of the most famous Apple products of all time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
1h 3m
Oct 2020
502- A Roundup of Apple’s iPhone 12 Launch Event (15.10.20)
After unveiling its new line of iPads and Watches last month, Apple has finally announced its 2020 iPhone 12 lineup. In this episode, we discuss the specs of all four iPhones. We also talk about eco-friendly driverless shuttles passing their trial in Sharjah and Khalifa Universit ... Show More
32m 58s
Nov 2021
Blackberry vs iPhone | The Smartphone Generation | 5
It’s a GPS! It’s a camera! It’s a computer! It’s...your smartphone. And in 2021, it feels like you can’t live without it. But when Blackberry and iPhone got into the game in the mid-2000s, that wasn’t yet the case. In just 15 years, our technology has changed dramatically — and s ... Show More
26m 9s
Sep 2023
Apple peut-il encore nous surprendre ? - 12/09
Ce mardi 12 septembre, François Sorel a reçu Jérôme Colombain, journaliste spécialisé des technologies et animateur du podcast "Monde Numérique", Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation chez EDF, et Lucas Perraudin, fondateur de Mula Digital. Ils se sont penchés sur la capacit ... Show More
27m 19s
Aug 2022
Una cosa más con Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak (o Woz) ha tenido una gran influencia en el mundo del hardware. En la cuarta temporada presentamos muchos de los aparatos que diseñó y fabricó, otros en los que colaboró, y algunos que lo inspiraron. Pero para The Woz, lo más importante no son los dispositivos que d ... Show More
28m 26s
Sep 2021
Tech News: Good Apples and Bad Apples
Apple holds its iPhone 13 event today and we guess at what the company will reveal. We also learn how a federal judge made a call that subsequently led to Apple losing 85 billion dollars in value. Plus news about Facebook, Google, electric vehicles and woolly mammoths. Learn more ... Show More
34m 49s