iPhone turns 15: How Apple forever changed the way we communicate


Today, Mitchell said, people are likely to look back and be surprised by all the things iPhones could not do when they were introduced 15 years ago with only 16 gigabytes of memory. — AFP

It was January 2007 when Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs walked onto a stage at the MacWorld convention and introduced the world to a new kind of phone. It was called an iPhone, and it became available to the public June 29, 2007.

Little did anyone know it would change the way we communicate in general and, in particular, the way we look at our phones.

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