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Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007

An excerpt from Steve Jobs's January 2007 Macworld keynote in which he introduces the original iPhone. It shows the pitch of a phone, music player and internet communicator, along with the live demo.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the model product demo and MVP showcase, and as a reminder of how constrained the first iPhone hardware was.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
John Schroter
Topic
iphone launch keynote
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • >It wasn't "so much more advanced", it used a heavily power constrained ARM SoC with limited memory running a software stack ported over from desktop and gosh could you ever feel it. [VIDEO] I highly recommend watching this.

    senttoschool on Hacker News · 2022-10
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  • Phone, music player, and internet communicator in a single device, that enabled worldwide communication reliably. Just the original phone solved voicemail (with visual voicemail) once and for all in one fell swoop. It was just echelons better. That part of the initial demo still continues …

    maneesh on Hacker News · 2020-08
    In My startup validation process

  • If you want to se the ultimate MVP demo of a product look no further than the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone - [VIDEO] It was not a finished product and the dev team was terrified that the system would crash. In fact you …

    vparikh on Hacker News · 2022-10
    In Ask HN: How to show a not “so perfect” MVP to potential customers?

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