The iPhone and Mobile Computing
The supercomputer in everyone's pocket.
Explore this event on the interactive timeline →Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, combining an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator into a single device without a physical keyboard. Its intuitive multi-touch interface fundamentally changed human interaction with computers and triggered the mobile computing era.
Verified Facts
- Before the iPhone, "smartphones" like the BlackBerry relied on physical plastic keyboards and styluses. The iPhone popularized capacitive touchscreens that required only a finger.
- The original iPhone didn't have an App Store. Steve Jobs initially wanted developers to build "web apps" that ran in the Safari browser. The App Store didn't launch until a year later in 2008.
- The processing power of a modern iPhone is millions of times more powerful than the computers that guided the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.