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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Original iPhone introduction_  by [Lisa Eadicicco](https://time.com/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Jun 29, 2017 11:00 AM UTC  by [Lisa Eadicicco](https://time.com/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Jun 29, 2017 11:00 AM UTC Think back to the mobile phone you owned before 2007\. It probably looked something like this: A silver clamshell device with numeric keys on the bottom and a low-resolution screen on the top. It probably had a simple camera, a calendar, and was capable of running a few basic games, but you used it primarily for voice calls and texting. In the early 2000s you might have upgraded to a BlackBerry 6210 — a favorite among text-obsessed teens and corporate employees tied to their email inboxes. But in 2007 the cellphone industry was sundered. In hindsight, there is only before and after the iPhone. “An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator,” Steve Jobs famously said on stage at Macworld in 2007 [when unveiling the first iPhone](http://time.com/4628515/steve-jobs-iphone-launch-keynote-2007/). “Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device.” The original iPhone, which [went on sale 10 years ago on June 29](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/28iPhone-Premieres-This-Friday-Night-at-Apple-Retail-Stores/), laid the foundation for the modern smartphone, forever changing the way we access the world’s information. It introduced two very important concepts that would remain at the core of mobile computers for years to come: the touch screen and the App Store. “The iPhone wouldn’t be what it is, and the smartphone industry wouldn’t be what it is, if you didn’t have a combination between two of those,” says Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures who previously spent 21 years covering Apple and the tech industry at Piper Jaffray. So-called smartphones existed before the iPhone, but many of them were unwieldy and expensive. [IBM’s Simon](http://time.com/3137005/first-smartphone-ibm-simon/), which launched in 1994 and is widely regarded as the world’s first smartphone, had a touch screen and even supported basic applications like email, an alarm clock, a to-do list and faxing. But it weighed more than a pound, cost around $1,000, and wasn’t very intuitive. With a dynamic touch-friendly interface and a central repository for discovering new applications, the iPhone was unlike any other mobile device. But the influence of the App Store — which [launched in July 2008](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/07/14iPhone-App-Store-Downloads-Top-10-Million-in-First-Weekend/) to support [the iPhone 3G’s release](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/07/14Apple-Sells-One-Million-iPhone-3Gs-in-First-Weekend/) a few months before Android’s own marketplace debuted — can’t be overstated. It’s the reason we can summon taxis without speaking a word, dispatch magically disappearing photos and transfer digital payments with the press of a button. The Ubers, Snapchats and Venmos of the world wouldn’t exist without smartphones, and the iPhone was and remains the category’s foundation. **Read more:** [The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time](http://time.com/4309573/most-influential-gadgets/) Together, the iPhone and the App Store established the idea that an electronic device needn’t be functionally rigid: just a phone, or just a camera, or just a handheld gaming console. Today’s smartphones are computational Swiss army knives, capable of everything from turn-by-turn driving directions to housing all our work-related documents. But dubbing smartphones mere “pocket-sized computers” is too reductive, argues Munster. “\[The iPhone\] was more than a computer, because a computer wasn’t a camera, it wasn’t GPS, it wasn’t an MP3 player,” he says. “The illustration that it became a computer in your pocket really doesn’t sum it up.” After the iPhone’s launch, smartphones quickly adopted slick, candy-bar shaped frames with touch screens. Google famously [rebuilt its first Android phone](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/) from the ground up after Apple’s keynote. “Holy crap, I guess we’re not going to ship _that_ phone,” said Android creator Andy Rubin after watching the presentation, according to journalist Fred Vogelstein in his book [_Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution_](https://www.amazon.com/Dogfight-Apple-Google-Started-Revolution-ebook/dp/B00BIV1R98). The iPhone did more than change the way cellphones were designed, it both revitalized and redefined the category. It carved out the notion that technology could be a status symbol, and with each iteration somehow elevated its allure such that buyers were willing to pay boutique prices. The original iPhone started at $500, while competing phones like the [T-Mobile G1](https://www.cnet.com/products/t-mobile-g1/review/) (the first phone to run on Android) cost $150 on a two-year contract. Even wildly popular phones like the Motorola Razr never attracted the attention or drew lines as famously long as those outside Apple Stores at each new iPhone launch. “It’s one of the reasons \[Apple\] did so well in China at first,” says Lauren Guenveur, consumer insight director for Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a firm that studies technology market trends. “To own an iPhone was to own a status symbol.” 10 years ago, Apple changed the world with the iPhone. Now, it’s using the iPhone to kickstart its next big gambit, [augmented reality](http://time.com/4806432/apple-wwdc-augmented-reality/), a technology that maps computer-generated graphics onto real world surroundings. During its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple unveiled ARKit, a suite of tools developers can use to create augmented reality apps for the iPhone. “I think what \[Apple\] is doing with ARKit is as significant as the App Store,” says Munster, expressing a view shared by many, namely that the practical uses of augmented reality (as opposed to the immobilizing niche-ness of wraparound virtual reality) is where the next technological revolution lies. _Pokémon Go_, a crazy-popular game about snatching fantasy monsters from real world locations, illustrates augmented reality’s potential for merging play with fitness and social elements. And companies like Apple, Microsoft and Facebook believe it will fundamentally alter how we interact with computers. It’s too soon to say what those changes will look like, but one thing seems certain: A decade from now, when we think back to the smartphones we cherished in 2017, odds are they’ll little resemble the pocket-sized glass-and-aluminum slabs we carry in our pockets today. Everyone wants to make that next world-changing device — or in other words, the next iPhone. ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] This is a day, I've been looking forward to, for two and a half years. [ APPLAUSE ] Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along. That changes everything. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] And Apple has been, well first of all one's very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Apple's been very fortunate, it's been able to Introduce a few of these into the world. 1984, we introduced the Macintosh. It didn't just change Apple, it changed the whole computer industry. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] In 2001, we introduced the first iPod. [ APPLAUSE ] And it didn't just change the way we all listened to music It changed the entire music industry. Well, today, we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. [ APPLAUSE ] The second- [ APPLAUSE ] Is a revolutionary mobile phone. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. [ APPLAUSE ] So, [ APPLAUSE ] Three things, a wide screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] An iPod, a phone. [ LAUGH ] And an Internet communicator. An iPod. A phone. [ APPLAUSE ] Are you getting it? [ APPLAUSE ] These are not three separate devices. This is one device. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] And we are calling it iPhone. [ APPLAUSE ] Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] Now. [ APPLAUSE ] Actually here it is, but we're gonna leave it there for now. [ LAUGH ] So before we get into it. [ LAUGH ] Let me talk about a category of things, that most advanced phones are called smartphones. So they say. And they typically combine a phone plus some email capability, plus they say it's the Internet, sort of the baby Internet in the one device. And they all have these plastic little keyboards on them. And the problem is that they're not so smart. And they're not so easy to use, so if you make a business school 101 graph of the smart axis and the easy to use axis, phones, regular cell phones, are right there. They're not so smart and they're not so easy to use. But smart phones are definitely a little smarter, but they actually are harder to use. They're really complicated. Just for the basic stuff, people have a hard time figuring out how to use them. Well we don't wanna do either one of these things. What we wanna do is make a leap frog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been and super easy to use. This is what iPhone is, okay? [ APPLAUSE ] So, we're going to reinvent the phone. Now, we're going to start, with a revolutionary user interface. Is the result of years of research and development and of course it's an interplay of hardware and software. Now why do we need a revolutionary user interface. Here is four smart phones, right? Motorola Q, the BlackBerry Palm Treo, Nokia E62, the usual suspects. And, what's wrong with their user interfaces? Well, the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 there. It's this stuff right here. They all have these keyboards that are there whether you need them or not, to be there. And they all have these control buttons that are fixed in plastic and are the same for every application. Well, every application wants a slightly different user interface. A slightly optimized set of buttons just for it. And what happens if you think of a great idea six months from now? You can't run around and add a button to these things, they're already shipped. So what do you do? It doesn't work, because the buttons and the controls can't change. They can't change for each application, and they can't change down the road, if you think of another great idea you wanna add to this product. Well how do you solve this? It turns out we have solved it, we solved it in computers 20 years ago. We solved it with a bitmap screen that could display anything we want, put any user interface up. And a pointing device, we solved it with a mouse, right? We solved this problem. So how are we going to take this to a mobile device? Well what we're gonna do is get rid of all these buttons and just make a giant screen, a giant screen. [ APPLAUSE ] Now, how are we going to communicate this? We don't want to carry around a mouse, right? So what are we going to do? A stylus, right? We're going to use a stylus. No. [ LAUGH ] Who wants a stylus? [ LAUGH ] You have to get them and put them away and you lose them, yuck. Nobody wants a stylus, so let's not use a stylus. We're gonna use the best pointing device in the world. We're gonna use a pointing device that we're all born with. We're born with ten of them. We're gonna use our fingers. [ LAUGH ] We're gonna touch this with our fingers and we have invented a new technology called Multi- Touch. Which is phenomenal. It works like magic. [ LAUGH ] You don't need a stylus. It's far more accurate than any touch display that's ever been shipped. It ignores unintended touches. It's super smart. You can do multi- finger gestures on it. And boy, have we patented it. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] So we've been very lucky to have brought a few revolutionary user interfaces to the market in our time. First was the Mouse. The second was the Click Wheel and now we're gonna bring Multi- Touch to the market. And each of these Revolutionary User Interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product. The Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone So, a revolutionary user interface. We're going to build on top of that with software. Now software on mobile phones is like, it's like baby software. It's not so powerful, and today we're going to show you a software breakthrough. Software that's at least 5 years ahead Of what's on any other phone. Now, how do we do this? Well, we start with a strong foundation. iPhone runs OS 10. [ APPLAUSE ] Now- [ APPLAUSE ] Why would we wanna run such a sophisticated operating system On a mobile device. Well, because it's got everything we need. It's got multitasking. It's got the best networking. It already knows how to power manage, we've been doing this on mobile computers for years. It's got awesome security and the right apps. It's got everything from Cocoa and the graphics and it's got core animation built in. And it's got the audio and video that OS- 10 is famous for. It's got all the stuff we want, and it's built right into iPhone. And that has let us create desktop class applications and networking, not the crippled stuff that you find on most phones. This is real desktop class applications. Now, you know, one of the pioneers of our industry, Allen Kay, has had a lot of great quotes throughout the years. And I ran across one of them recently that explains how we look at this. Explains why we go about doing things the way we do, because we love software. And here's the quote. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. [ APPLAUSE ] Alan said this 30 years ago. And this is how we feel about it, and so we're bringing breakthrough software to a mobile device for the first time. It's five years ahead of anything on any other phone. The second thing we're doing is we're learning from the iPod syncing with iTunes. You know, we're going to ship our 100 millionth iPod this year. And that's tens of millions of people that know how to sync these devices with their PCs or Mac. And sync all of their media right onto their iPod. Right, so you just drop your iPod in and it automatically syncs. You're gonna do the same thing with iPhone. It automatically syncs to your PC or Mac right through iTunes. And iTunes is gonna sing all you media on to your iPhone. Your music, your audiobooks, podcast, movies, TV shows Music videos, but also syncs a ton of data. Your contacts, your calendars, and your photos which you can get on your iPod today. Your notes, your bookmarks from your web browser, your email accounts, your whole email setup, all that stuff can be moved over to iPhone completely automatically. It's really nice and we do it through iTunes. [ APPLAUSE ] Again, you go to iTunes, and you set it up. Just like you'd set up an iPod or an Apple TV. And you set up what you want synced to your iPhone, and it's just like an iPod. Charge and sync. So sync with iTunes. Third thing I want to talk about a little is design. We've designed something wonderful for your hand, just wonderful. And this is what it looks like. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] It's got a 3. 5 Inch screen on it. It's really big. And it's the highest resolution screen we've ever shaped. It's 160 pixels per inch. Highest we've ever shipped. It's gorgeous, and on the front there's only one button down there. We call it the home button. It takes you home from wherever you are, and that's it. Let's take a look at the side. It's really thin. It's thinner than any smartphone out there at 11. 5mm. Thinner than the cue, thinner than the blackjack, thinner than all of them. it's really nice, and we got some controls on the side. We got a little switch for ring and silent. We got a volume up and down control. Let's look at the back. On the back, the biggest thing of note is we got a two megapixel camera built right in. The other side, we're back on the front, so let's take a look at the top now. We've got a headset jack, three and a half millimeter, all your iPod headphones fit right in. We've got a place, a little tray for your SIM card. And we've got one switch for sleep and wake. Just push it to go to sleep, push it to wake up. Let's take a look at the bottom. We've got a speaker. You got a microphone. And we've got our 30 pin iPod connector, so that's the bottom. Now we've also got some stuff you can't see. We've got three really advanced sensors built into this phone. The first one is a proximity sensor. It senses when physical objects get close. So when you bring iPhone up to your ear. Take a phone call, it turns off the display and it turns off the touch sensor instantly. Why do you want to do that? One, to save battery. Two, so you don't get [ UNKNOWN ] inputs from your face into the touch screen. It just automatically turns them off, take it away, BOOM! it's back on. So it's got a proximity sensor built it. It's got an ambient light sensor as well. We sense the ambient lighting conditions and adjust The brightness of the display to match the ambient lighting conditions, again, better user experience, saves power. 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