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Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007

John Schroter · 51.6M views · 2011-10-08 · 10:20

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An excerpt from Steve Jobs's January 2007 Macworld keynote in which he introduces the original iPhone. It shows the pitch of a phone, music player and internet communicator, along with the live demo.

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HN treats it as the model product demo and MVP showcase, and as a reminder of how constrained the first iPhone hardware was.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2025

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senttoschool · 2022-10 · Strong recommendation

>It wasn't "so much more advanced", it used a heavily power constrained ARM SoC with limited memory running a software stack ported over from desktop and gosh could you ever feel it. [VIDEO] I highly recommend watching this.

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vparikh · 2022-10 · Recommendation

If you want to se the ultimate MVP demo of a product look no further than the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone - [VIDEO] It was not a finished product and the dev team was terrified that the system would crash. In fact you could argue that the first iPhone was an MVP released to the public. These would help: - Be upfront that this is an MVP. Do not try to sell it as a product that is a finished product - Create a script that shows the core working functionality - rehearse the script and make sure the feature list demonstrated and that you can run through the script - In your case, is it possible that you can dictate (you need to control the variables)? - Ask for feed back. Listen. Do not try to defend the product. Hope this helps

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maneesh · 2020-08 · Recommendation

Phone, music player, and internet communicator in a single device, that enabled worldwide communication reliably. Just the original phone solved voicemail (with visual voicemail) once and for all in one fell swoop. It was just echelons better. That part of the initial demo still continues to blow my mind. [LINK] Here’s the original introduction to the iphone: [VIDEO]

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