iPhone: the famous Apple smartphone is already celebrating its 15th anniversary!

Happy birthday, Apple! The apple brand is indeed celebrating the 15th anniversary of the release of the first iPhone. Since then, he has changed a lot of things in his daily life. But he also struggled to establish himself. MCETV reminds you of everything!

Not a phone, a revolution

Because Steve Jobs knew he was going to pull off a huge coup. He was going to release his first smartphone. During the presentation, he promises "a revolution" to journalists and fans riveted to their screens, hoping to see the phone.

Le Parisien nevertheless reminds us that the iPhone initially had the reputation of being nothing more than an improved iPod. Other than calling, he didn't do much more. It must also be said that in 2007, the Internet was not really available unlimited.

So we would have had to pay for everything we do for free (or almost) these days. Gradually, smartphones have grown, changed... An improvement due, first of all, to the change in Internet packages. The arrival of Free on the market broke everything.

Since then, all incumbent operators have had to align. This allows as many people as possible to have a smartphone. But above all the right package to use it to the maximum of its possibilities. The use of the iPhone has therefore changed.

More than a phone, it becomes a small computer. The smartphone accompanies us everywhere. He does everything for us. It allows us to pay, to play, to keep our concert tickets, our train tickets: it contains an entire life.

iPhone: how far will it go?

Apple is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its flagship product. By taking out its phone, the brand has indeed put an end to the classic phone. Catherine Lejealle, sociologist specializing in digital technology and teacher-researcher at ISC Paris, analyzes it in Le Parisien.

For her, the iPhone is intended to “save time. But while offering to occupy this free time“. Useful for organizing, it is indeed used to pass the time. On the train, in a waiting room: Apple comes to help us as soon as boredom appears.

But Apple has also created a flip side to its pretty coin. Because with 33 models in 15 years, and the release of a new opus each year, the telephone “has become a disposable object. Like clothes”. The way of consuming has changed a lot.

Gone is the Nokia 3310 that we keep for 10 years. Further still, finished, the fixed telephone. The iPhone is thus updated very often. And new versions make old ones obsolete. A new march of time is then set up.

“It’s a time accelerator. He favored the society of immediacy“, adds Catherine Lejealle to the Parisian. With its new product, Apple has another way of consuming. A way of life that celebrates its 15th anniversary on January 14, 2022.

With the preparation of a new SE, the new revolutions planned for number 14 of the range, Apple is not done yet... Steve Jobs has sadly given way. But his memory lives on. And with it, the telephone that he saw as a "revolution" continues its mad race.