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Today's part of our regular return to the past will again be dedicated to Apple, this time in connection with a rather important matter. It was on June 29, 2007 that Apple officially started selling its first iPhone.

Apple launched its first iPhone on June 29, 2007. At the time when Apple's first smartphone saw the light of day, smartphones as such were still waiting for their boom, and many people used either push-button cell phones or communicators. When Steve Jobs introduced the "iPod, telephone and Internet communicator in one" on stage in January 2007, he aroused great curiosity among many laymen and experts. At the time of the official launch of sales of the first iPhone, many people still showed some skepticism, but they were soon convinced of their mistake. In this context, Gene Munster of Loop Ventures later stated that the iPhone would not be what it is, and the smartphone market would not be what it is today, if not for what the first iPhone offered in 2007.

The iPhone differed in many ways from other smartphones that were on the market at the time of its release. It offered a full touch screen and the complete absence of a hardware keyboard, a clean user interface and a handful of useful native applications such as an email client, an alarm clock and more, not to mention the ability to play music. A little later, the App Store was also added to the operating system, which was initially called iPhoneOS, where users could finally start downloading third-party applications as well, and the iPhone's popularity began to skyrocket. Apple managed to sell one million iPhones in the first 74 days after it went on sale, but with the arrival of the next generations, this number continued to increase.

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