File 001 · Category Openers
Record 001 · Electronics · 2007
07.01.EApple iPhone (1st generation)
Apple
“The product that turned the phone into the default computer of daily life.”
This is only the beginning.
Steve Jobs framed it as three products in one — widescreen iPod, phone, and internet communicator. Multi-touch, a real mobile browser, and later the App Store collapsed cameras, music players, GPS, and PCs into a slab people already carried.
Highest combined cultural, economic, and interface impact of any consumer product in the 21st century.
Filed notes
- Capacitive multi-touch as primary UI
- Full mobile Safari browser
- Visual voicemail
- App Store (2008) as software distribution
Units. 3+ billion iPhones across the line by mid-2020s
SIC
3663
Radio & TV Communications Equipment
NAICS
334220
Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
