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it's the eighth anniversary of the iPhone going on sale here's our apples very first smartphone defied the critics and set the company on the road to smartphone domination announced in January 2007 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs the iPhone promised a miracle touchscreen device that would change technology forever today we know it would go on to be a massive hit but at the time fierce debates raged about the devices potential what bothers me is saying goodbye to my phone for a few days yeah they'll cross ship me a loaner for $29 but the whole idea of being without my phone with my contacts and data and photos and ride off on it that gives me the willies they really need a removable battery in this product and finally steam winning in a new one that ham indeed the very first iPhone was a long way from the ultra sophisticated smart phones of today the first iteration lacked 3G it couldn't shoot video he had no removable battery and as Microsoft Steve Ballmer helpfully pointed out it was quite expensive $500 fully subsidized in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine in retrospect it seems crazy to bet against the iPhone but to be honest these were very reasonable reasons to doubt the phone's potential but while the iPhones critics worried about these missing features the general public reacted very differently CNET's kent german reviewed the first iPhone and remembers the atmosphere at the launch they said it'd go on sale at 6 p.m. local time and so I went down to the store in San Francisco I'd actually pick up a review model at 6 p.m. and the line was they had actually closed off the street because there were so many people this is the first time I'd ever seen people line up around the block for a phone and in cheer as they came out 74 days after it went on sale Apple confirmed it had sold its first million iPhones it was the iPhone 3G in 2008 that really set its mobile on a meteoric course however with Apple selling 1 million iPhone 3GS in a single weekend the iPhone 3G did as the name suggests introduced 3G as well as GPS powers and more features but it still held some things back in fact reminiscing now both early Mobile's established a real theme for the iPhone if you want you features you're gonna have to wait I think the Apple is conditioned us to think in a way that well they don't put it in the first round because they want to get it the way they wanted to work the way that they really want to they want control of everything they want to perfect it from beginning to end and they have a vision for it I think the feature is so new and it's not gonna fulfill it they're willing to wait and Apple fans I think have come to expect that you just accept it say well we'll get it when if they're gonna get it working right the iPhone has always made us wait from multitasking to bigger screens and much more but with over 700 million iPhones sold Apple's slow and steady approach has clearly worked in fact from uncertain beginnings it's helped the iPhone rise to what may eventually be remembered as Apple's greatest achievement so it's another happy birthday for this unassuming slab of technology but what comes next let us know your thoughts on the fate of the iPhone and stay tuned to see it