Happy 9th birthday, iPhone!Rene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editor-in-chief of iMore, executive editor for Mobile Nations, video and podcast host, you can follow him on Snapchat or Twitter @reneritchie.
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On June 29, 2007 people were lining up in droves outside Apple Stores to be among the first to own a an iPhone!
It was a very different world back then. What few smartphones there were typically had small screens and hardware keyboards, locked the web in WAP and proxy, and a simple sticky notes app cost $30... if you could find it on one of the dozens of scattered online stores. The iPhone, by comparison wasn't a breath of fresh air, it was a breath of fresh experience.
Apple had worked for over two years on the Purple Experience Project: A capacitive touch interface that made direct manipulation feel like a reality, on inertial scrolling and rubber banding, pinch-to-zoom and cover-flow that made interaction ...
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Happy 9th birthday, iPhone!
