First-generation iPhone brings in more than 63 thousand dollars
In January 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, United States. This started the mobile phone revolution. Apple became the example of the interesting smartphones.
The first iPhone fetched $63,356 at an American auction. This amounts to almost 60 thousand euros. This yield is higher than previously thought. Read more about the first iPhone here.
Introduction of the first iPhone in the United States
The first generation of the iPhone became available for sale in January 2007. Steve Jobs asked the audience “Do you get it? These are not three separate devices, but this is one device!”. At launch, two versions of the first iPhone had been sold. This was the iPhone with 4 gigabytes of storage memory and the iPhone with double the gigabyte. The retail price for the 4 gigabyte was $499, the 8 gigabyte cost $599.
Watch the launch of the first iPhone in 2007 in the video below.
Microsoft laughed at the iPhone
Not every major player realized that Apple caused a true smartphone revolution. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer laughed in an interview mainly at the price of the iPhone. The defect as a keyboard was also seen as a defect. Apple now has a market capitalization of USD 3,000 billion.
First generation iPhone still works
In November 2007, the first generation iPhone was also launched in Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the United Kingdom. This copy was never sold in the Netherlands. A total of 6 million copies have been sold. The operating system runs on the iOS 3.1.3. All updates that have appeared after that cannot be downloaded on this first generation.
You can still use the various apps such as Safari, Messages, YouTube, Maps, Calendar, Mail, Contacts, Stocks, Weather, Calculator, Notes, App store, Music, Photos and iTunes. To use the first generation iPhone in the Netherlands, you must remove the SIM lock. For this it is necessary to hack the software of the smartphone.
Meanwhile, the rumors about the iPhone 15 Ultra are becoming more and more concrete.
