Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone (2007)

At Macworld San Francisco on January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs presented what sounded like three products, a phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communicator, before revealing they were one device. The demos that follow show the features every smartphone went on to copy: scrolling with a flick of a finger, a multi-touch screen in place of a plastic keyboard, visual voicemail and full web browsing on a phone. The most useful thing for students is what is missing. There are no third-party apps and no store to buy them from; those arrived the following year, and the entry for that event shows how much of the phone's later value came from a decision made after this launch.