The wonderful iPhone was unveiled on January 9th in the year 2007 by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. The phone was actually released to the public on June 29th of that year. With this product, Apple wanted to “reinvent the phone”, they wanted it to be a revolutionary life changing product in the technology world. This new phone was something no one had ever seen before as it was the first-ever smartphone. Before this product's release, consumers were used to flip phones and phones with tiny keyboards and tiny screens that were not touch screens. Some examples of these phones are the Nokia and BlackBerry, which were the most technologically advanced phones at the time as they had embedded GPS systems which was the huge wow factor of those phones. Apple wanted to go above and beyond and create a product that could do way more than having phone calls, texts, and GPS systems as the phones could be hard to use due to the small keyboard and small screens and a not good internal system in some cases. Apple saw the opportunity to not just have one small technological advance with a new product, they created a product that was revolutionary. A major part of the first iPhone that people loved was that it was so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. When cell phones first came out, they were huge and bulky, not able to fit in any pocket, and a bag needed to be a remotely big size in order to fit it inside there. From then on phones did get smaller, but it was technologically unheard of before 2007, that a phone with so much power and uses could be as small as it was. This phone had 2G power which was amazing for its time and it was a combination of three products all in one small device. It was a touch screen iPod, a mobile phone for calling and texting and it was a breakthrough device for internet communication, including all web browsing and emailing that would be done on a computer. Apple created a revolutionary product that combined multiple products into one to make life easier and faster for people when it came to technological advancements and having their daily life needs be met with just one small easy-to-hold and use the device.
The invention of the iPhone changed our world in a huge technological aspect. With it being the first Smartphone with its small screen and easy-to-use applications, making something better than that at the time was a challenge for other companies. The manufacturers at RIM, where BlackBerry phones were made, were in denial about the whole iPhone fiasco. This caused the company to not update their technology just like Apple and other competitors, so those phones are no longer in existence today. Although the price of the iPhone was more expensive, they were more preferred and valued over other phones including BlackBeryy which in the end pushed other companies phones to the ground. The invention of the first iPhone itself helped with easier, faster, better communication, and as the years have gone on, each newly updated device has been better and better with its time. Customers complained that the first iPhone didn’t have any camera attached to it, so the next phone in the line, the iPhone 3G, which came out in 2009, had a camera plus more amazing features. In the year 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled a new feature of the iPhone which is FaceTime. Nowadays, this feature is so well known and turned into the normalcy of communication, but for its time in 2010, it was a crazy new thing to be able to see the person's face you were calling on the other end. As the years went on Apple of course updated the Facetime feature to better suit their customers and to keep up with the ever so rapidly growing technology. The iPhone really helped to make Smartphones be what they are today. Also with its easy to use functions from the first phone all the way up to now with the newest iPhone 13, anyone at any age with mobile hand functions can use the iPhone. Personally, my grandparents use iPhone and are able to Facetime, call, and text so easily even when they didn’t grow up using Smartphones. As my grandmother is legally blind, she has a big text feature on her iPhone as well in order for her to be able to see what she is doing on the phone. Apple really makes sure that people all across the board and people with certain disabilities can use their phones which is another reason as to why the iPhone is such a revolutionary technology advancement that changed the world. The negative effect of the iPhone would have to be an addiction to the easy-to-use device itself.Smartphone addiction is a real thing that can be very damaging to people's health if not taken seriously. Smartphones are a main cause of stress which leads to other internal physical body problems. On the iPhone, there are ways to lower brightness and turn the phone on night mode and things like that to help eye strain, but overall this piece of technology can be dangerous if used too much at the wrong capacity just like anything else really. Overall the iPhone was a revolutionary product that changed the technological world and still is ever-changing to this day with their new phones that are released every year.
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