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Record 001 · Electronics · 2007
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Apple iPhone (1st generation)
Apple
“The product that turned the phone into the default computer of daily life.”
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.
3+ billion iPhones across the line by mid-2020s
- Capacitive multi-touch as primary UI
- Full mobile Safari browser
- Visual voicemail
- App Store (2008) as software distribution
This is only the beginning.



