16 years ago a server wrote amateurishly about Apple in a personal blog whose name or domain I can’t even remember where it was hosted. I was 22 (who was now), and my partner Pedro Aznar (among others) was starting out with Applesfera as a side project to Xataka.
I still had almost a year to go before I started writing in this house, but I was very attentive to the opening speech that was happening. 16 years ago, Steve Jobs made history by introducing the iPhone and changing the world forever
First came the smartphone. Then came the iPhone
There were rumors of an Apple phone coming, but they were just the tip of the iceberg of what we saw that day. The company had kept the iPhone as top secret project, accessible only to the brightest workers. Whoever went to work on iPhone development is gone. No one knew what he was doing or where he was.
We’re not exaggerating when we say that the iPhone changed the whole world. Nobody remembers the PDAs or Blackberries of yesteryear and it’s the fault of the iPhone. When you see a picture of them they look like pots to us antediluvian
Applesfera was very young when the original iPhone was announced. The article we wrote about it at the time reflected our astonishment and made the time difference clear: what we were highlighting were the abilities to view full web pages and emails, and we were already considering the interface of this historic “iPhone OS”. And that was just the beginning: the App Store would arrive a year later and change everything again.
Fifteen years later, it looks like we’ve hit a development “ceiling” with linear improvements (the iPhone 15 is rumored to follow this trend) across the device industry. smartphone. The future seems to come by other pathsalthough it will take us a long time to get to know it well and everything will be determined by increasingly strict regulations.
But today, January 9, the iPhone deserves recognition. No matter how much time passes, and no matter how many obstacles and setbacks it encounters, this little handheld device has managed to change everything. Happy Birthday, iPhone; And thanks to Apple for making this possible.
