Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 04 July 2008 18:37
Your IT -
Mobility
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Did you know that iPhone.org was first registered by Apple in the last
century? Yep, it was way back in 1999, and iPhone Gold, one of the
trillion iPhone sites out there, has published a cool little timeline
of important iPhone developments starting from that first 1999 event!
You can see a fantastic graphical timeline of some major iPhone milestones since 1999 at a site called iPhone Gold, with the specific timeline page
here.
But seeing as the details are public knowledge, I’ve listed them here for fun with some of my own observations, and added in some detail that the graphical timeline misses out on.
December 15, 1999 - Apple registers iPhone.org and redirects it to Apple.com
Sept 11, 2002 - Steve Jobs is asked if there will ever be an iPhone, and he replies "One never knows. We don't usually discuss produts we haven't announced".
Between 2002 and 2004, Apple files for the iPhone trademark in Singapore, the UK, Australia and Canada.
In December 2004, Apple and Motorola announced they were working on a phone that would have iTunes within.
In September 2005, that phone came to life as the ROKR, although it quickly bombed because it had a limit of 100 songs in the US version, while the Australian version could only store 100 songs! Steve Jobs apparently called it an iPod Shuffle in a phone, and sadly, it was little more than that thanks to the paltry song limit. That said, some users figured out how to raise the limit to 1000 songs but it wasn't enough to save the ROKR which suffered the fate of having the iPod nano launched on the same day which was much more seductive to consumers - it's what I bought instead!
In September 2006, Apple files for an iPhone patent in New Zealand, and through a third party company called "Ocean Telecom Services" apparently files for an iPhone trademark in the US.
In December 2006 Linksys launches an iPhone! But as we all know it's only the Linksys VoIP iPhone and not the real Apple iPhone.
January 9 2007 sees the official launch of the official Apple iPhone at last! No longer a rumour, Steve Jobs wows the world but says the iPhone won't arrive until June 29, 2007. The world is stunned, however, to discover the iPhone will be locked to one carrier, AT&T (or Cingular at the time), and only comes in a 2G configuration.
January 10 2007 sees Cisco sues Apple over the iPhone trademark!
Continued on page 2.
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