The iPhone 1: Apple’s sour start

When the first iPhone launched in 2007, most of us who remember owning one can attest to its (at the time) revolutionary features. It was a touchscreen phone that worked well, looked great and did stuff others phones couldn’t at the time. In 2014, we have choice now, a choice largely broadened by the iPhone 1. It had issues though, ones that Bob Borchers, its former senior director of product marketing even going as far as to call it “okay” and “not a great phone”. Oddly enough, he’s correct. The beauty of the iPhone 1 only went skin-deep, and numerous issues plagued it. These issues didn’t stop it from changing the smartphone landscape, it’s just nice to know what’s in the past now.

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