Happy XNUMXth birthday, iPhone!

"This is the day I've been waiting for the last two and a half years." With these words, Steve Jobs began a keynote that is now among the most important in Apple's history, the one on January 9, 2007. That day, Jobs presented a mobile phone that was dubbed the iPhone. It wasn't the best, it wasn't the prettiest, and it wasn't the cheapest, but it was the phone that changed everything. He did so by indicating the correct path to follow. It was on June 29 when it finally hit the market and today is exactly 8 years since that day.

I, who once refused to use an iPhone because of its shortcomings, sometimes wonder how this was possible. I think I found the answer not too long ago. In 2007, I decided to buy a Nokia N80. It had more applications, it had a better camera with a flash, you could make video calls and the only thing I saw on the iPhone was a huge touch screen with applications that were nonsense, like drinking a virtual beer. But, eight years later, if you ask me what I prefer today, I would answer you without a doubt that the original iPhone. I have a browser, a big screen, games and it is very easy to use. I recently took my father's Nokia N80, with Symbian, and it seems to me that the system is very difficult even though I had that phone. That is the reason why the iPhone became so famous.

At the presentation, Jobs promised three revolutionary devices: a large-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and advanced web communication. He repeated these words until people understood that it was not three devices, but one. They put the simple name "phone" with the letter "i" in front of it, just like the iMac and iPod, resulting in the well-known iPhone. This moment had a similar moment in the last WWDC when Jimmy Iovine presented Apple Music and that is why people laughed on the 8th.

As you can see in the video of his presentation that I add at the end of this article, that iPhone was not taken out of his pocket like the iPod. He did not pose with him to have thousands of photos taken. Do not. That iPhone didn't work. As you read. It was hooked up to the computer to make sure it didn't crash. Plus, they had giant phone and WiFi antennas backstage just so the performance wouldn't turn out to be a fiasco. It was not. Those responsible for the project, seeing that everything was going well, got drunk in their seats celebrating it. Needless to say, all the problems were fixed before the iPhone was launched.

Jobs questioned the intelligence of other smartphones at the time. Although they seemed normal to all of us, time has proved him right. It's not that they weren't smart or capable. The problem is that what we once learned to use, we now realize that it is not an efficient use of the terminal. It happened to me that I took a phone from 2009, the N97, and, having been mine, I don't know how to use it. This is true.

It wasn't the first touchscreen phone either, far from it. But it was the first phone with a multi-touch screen. They also imagined gestures to, for example, zoom in on photos, something that is now used on all smartphones. All that, according to Jobs, was patented, but it was an attempt to put doors to the field. The criticism of the ex-CEO of Apple to the Stylus is also for the story, something that could change if Tim Cook decided to add one in future iPhones.

Something that can provoke laughter today is the comment on the iPhone screen, when Jobs said that they had included a "giant" screen, something that today is a screen for smartphones that could be the mini version of the normal version. But for a time when screens were half, the screen was, indeed, gigantic.

In the keynote there was also time for Jobs to make a call from the iPhone, because we must not forget that he also called even though the one in the presentation worked with traps. Demonstrating Google Maps, Jobs found a Starbucks, called it, and played a prank on the girl who picked up the phone.

And good. You may like the iPhone more or less. You may fall Apple better or worse. We can argue about whether they invented something or copied everything, but one thing is indisputable: on June 29, 2007, Apple changed the history of mobile telephony.