This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale
This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone.
It’s hard to imagine today how different mobile access was before that of June 29, 2007. The internet in your pocket didn’t look like, well, the internet. Social media — and the ability for everyone to respond globally to everything — was in its infancy. And while older phones certainly had cameras, the quality – and the potential for instant editing and filtering and sharing that exists today — wasn’t there yet.
Boston 25 anchor Mark Ockerbloom was on Boylston Street reporting outside the Apple store on the eve of the big day as people camped out in line for a device we were told would change the world.
15-years-later and 13 iPhones, this device most certainly did that!
Here is a fun look back at this story from 2007:
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