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Year: 2007
Products: iPod, iPhone

The iPhone's success continues

As you can see from my two older articles, it was already clear in 2007 that the iPhone was an exceptional revelation that would significantly change the mobile industry. True, it also had a number of flaws and unpleasant features that were only remedied over time, but, as with the iPod, the pros significantly outweighed the cons for users, such as the lack of a search function—which was particularly annoying in larger address books—or the lack of 3G network support, which was resolved with the introduction of the 3G model.

Let’s now take a brief look at how the iPhone continued its march into the mobile market.

Shortly after the iPhone’s introduction, Jobs begins to [”]{dir=”rtl”}feed the [market]{dir=”rtl”},[”]{dir=”rtl”} and by the end of February 2007, the first advertisements for the as-yet-unsold phone appear. It goes on sale on June 29, 2007, in AT&T stores and Apple Stores. Newspapers report on queues of customers waiting up to two days to be among the first buyers. And why do they want to be the first to have it?

For example, to answer the age-old question [”]{dir=”rtl”}will it [blend]{dir=”rtl”},” which is something like [”]{dir=”rtl”}let’s blend [it]{dir=”rtl”},” asked of various popular products by the manufacturers of Blendtec blenders on YouTube. By the summer of 2007, over a million viewers want to see the answer to “will it blend?”

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