Gadgetory

an iPod a phone and an Internet communicator an iPod a phone are you getting it and we are calling it iPhone well the day that the iPhone was announced I was actually at WWDC at Moscone Center in San Francisco and you have to remember this is the time where Macworld was really the true showcase the only event we saw once a year is Declan McCullagh hoarding for CNN from the Macworld show floor in San Francisco well we're here today to do is to try to catch a glimpse of the new Apple iPhone that you can see it's behind glass this holy object is surrounded by eager onlookers well I was there for working for another company a case company and we everyone knew that Apple was going to release a phone I was the Apple reporter at Bloomberg News the whole world was waiting to see what was going to be announced because you had to be in the room to hear the news those things went live webcast or audio cast there was a lot of hype as to what it was going to be I was rocking some type of Nokia flip phone my favorite phone at the time was the sidekick my first cell phone was a Motorola flip phone start act there was a lot of speculation beforehand but why Apple would even get into the phone market the biggest thing that I remember is just the fact that he had to re explain to the audience like people didn't couldn't make sense of it people didn't know what it was and then when he repeated himself then people started flipping the cow right today Apple is going to reinvent the phone and here it is we're very excited about this you know I had an iPod I had a camera in my pocket I had a flip phone so the idea of having a device that became all of those things was super appealing to me the idea of being able to hop on the internet from anywhere right from my pocket with amazing features I was I was most excited about the the touch screen as silly as it sounds have your entire music library for the most part on your phone that was just unheard of like before you could put maybe like 32 songs on your phone so that is I was crazy I convinced my wife to let me switch from Sprint AT&T so that I could get an iPhone there were massive problems with 18 T's partnership anybody who had an early I phone you could do a lot of things that look at this pretty device but trying to get a phone call through was a major challenge we still even to this day have our same ATT unlimited data plan 10 years later where are those people that that hung on to that four gigabyte model we're gonna price it at that same $4.99 no premium whatsoever we're gonna have an 8 gigabyte model for just $5.99 I do have my iPhone and I don't know where it is it's somewhere in storage and I believe it has a cracked screen and it's all beat up well the funny thing about this is I have this resting on my desk at home wow it's so small wow this feels amazingly small it's still beautiful it's lovely what great design this literally changed the game for all smart phones moving forward and that that that in itself is it's pretty special I never go anywhere without my smart phone today and that I think is Apple's biggest legacy to this industry