iPhone 6 years old today

Well you've probably assumed from the title that i'm talking about the iPhone being 6 years old. Yes 6 years ago today, Steve jobs came out on stage to reveal the next revolutionary step of the tech industry. Not only did it change the iPhone market but it changed the way we look at smartphones today, i'd say 90% of the phones out there have a virtual keyboard instead of the traditional qwerty keyboards. Just look at the keyboards that you find on a blackberry or a Pre 3. Well that's what smartphones used to be like. Steve jobs stated that if phones wanted to add more buttons, the manufactur would have had to create a new phone to compisate for the new design but with the iPhone, if they wanted to change the way you use the phone, all apple would do is change the UI.

You've got all this space with a qwerty keyboard on the blackberry and it was there either you like it or not, it's not going to go away and the UI isn't going to change that but with the iPhone and at the time, a 3.5inch display was massive for it's time and with having a large display, you could have the virtual keyboard any time you wanted to enter in on the text field.

In 2009 that's when i first aquired an iPhone and that's when i was in the 21st century, I went from a sony ericsson k800i to an iPhone. Even though the k800i wasn't old at all. i got the k800i for christmas 2008 and then 6 months later, i got enough money to buy an iphone from my uncle. I've actually still got that same iPhone with me and none of the physical buttons work anymore, i can only activate the phone if i've got a 3.5mm headphone jack and plug it into the port.

Thanks for reading. 6 years ago it was when steve jobs walked out on stage and wowed the crowd by mentioning 3 different features, 'An iPod, A Phone, An internet communitcator' and then with more ephasis 'An iPod, A Phone, An internet communitcator. Are you getting it, these are not 3 seperate devices' and immeditically the crowd cheers ' This is one device and we are calling it iPhone' then the iPhone went from revolutionizing the computer market, the Music industry to changing the Phone industry and now with the iPad, They've created a market which nobody realised what they were missing.