Seven years, one week and one day ago, Steve jobs introduced us to the iPhone

And then the world changed, just a little bit.

We wanted to make the anniversary 7 years, one week and one day because, well, we’re awesome? And who are we to say that everyone has to curtail to society’s strict view on anniversary’s? Huh?

Just because the word itself means yearly. We’re making this one the anniweekidayiversary. Take that society.

Erm, anyway. 7 years 1 week and 1 day ago Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld Expo 2007 in bright and breezy San Francisco to show us what Apple had been working on.

What we saw was not what we ( for the most part)  were expecting. We had seen all the parts before- we knew iPods, we knew phones fairly well and we knew how to communicate on the internet. An amalgamation of those things, a small and sexy one at that, blew our combined socks off.

And then these guys got stuck in them!

But Mr Jobs was less concerned with the kittens stuck in our blown off socks. He was concerned with revolutionizing a bunch of different technologies at once, as you do. The iPhone sparked the beginning of a huge and fast moving change – how we use the internet in almost every aspect of our life, how we interact with people, how we use technology in occupations and education, advertising, the list goes on.

This is what Steve had to say on that day.

“Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device.

So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone…are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone.

Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.”

It’s amazing to us that the iPhone has only been around for 7 years ( and one week and one day).

Thanks Steve!  Everyone who’s happy about iPhones, raise a drink to Steve in the Sky tonight! (and if you accidentally drop your iPhone into said drink, you know who to call to sell your iPhone- www.iPhoneAntidote.com, duh.)

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