The iPhone was presented in a more than historic Apple Keynote on January 9, 2007. A show for which Steve Jobs reserved some surprises, and which served as a showcase for a device which, for better or for worse, was going change the way of communicating.
However, even if today we understood it… Do you know what users thought of the iPhone presented fifteen years ago? Things have changed a lot, but many have predicted a catastrophe that never happened. Let’s look back, see what people thought of the iPhone fifteen years ago.
The opinion of the foreros
The original iPhone did not go unnoticed at Forocoches, the most important Spanish-speaking forum in the world. Today, iPhone users run a thread with more than 200 volumes to help other “forums”, or just to get your daily fanboy fix, but on launch day we could read the following:
- Father : The iPhone is a media player with a phone. On the PDA, you can load the softw are you want: everything the iPod does (MP3 player, video, browser, messaging) but also spreadsheets, scientific programs, word processors, etc.
- Frantic: What bigger bullshit. I just bought an HTC P3300 which has: Mobile; PDA with Windows Mobile 5.0 (system for which there are thousands of programs, games and applications. What is there for Apple?); Radio (these apples don’t wake up, mp3 players without a radio and again they screw up); GPS Shirf III (something that Apple doesn’t have, ahh and from any pda you can access Google maps, I don’t know why they put it as a novelty…); Bluetooth…
- Elmenda online: Pefiero has N95.
- PiPoGT: It’s not worth what it costs, there are better gadgets than this iPhone.
- Jesus: I don’t think the OS is closed, Jobs knows he would kill the bug before it was born.
These are by no means the craziest comments that have been made that day regarding the iPhone, in fact they are the most justified and consistent considering how the industry has evolved at this era.
The expert’s opinion”
But it didn’t stop there, the boys of Bloomberg, one of the industry’s most influential North American media outlets called the iPhone a luxury absurdity for tech geeks. For its part, Engadget, now extinct in Spanish, said it was neither a phone nor smart, but the palm took the New York Times, media that devoted almost an entire page to trying to show that a non-removable battery was little less than an aberration, which is now an industry standard.
