First iPhone in 2024 - Review & Retrospective

[@91Tech]

Sorry for the delay, posted this a couple days ago but had to deal with some copyright shenanigans. Thanks for watching! The original iPhone managed to establish so many of the fundamentals of any smartphone today, it's actually absurd. Our phones nowadays are bigger & fancier, but the core experience genuinely isn't all that different 17 years later. ...I promise the next video won't take another 2 months. Probably. Maybe. Hope you enjoy this one, I know I enjoyed making it!

[@thewubmachine840]

its back

[@thewubmachine840]

Original uploaded March 24

[@txe1nd]

everyone have a good day

[@txe1nd]

Have a good day

[@CodyHeap480]

Crazy to think we are about as far away from the iPhone 6s as the iPhone 2G when the iPhone 6s was released

[@skinnynotlegend]

That is fricking crazy. We are as far away from the 2G as the 2G was from the Macintosh Classic.

[@bibasik7]

iPhone 6s is still somewhat usable today. iPhone 2G was practically useless when iPhone 6s was new.

[@0w3nn]

@@bibasik7 Yep. A Pentium III was completely unusable when the Core 2 Duo was released. A Core 2 Duo is still usable today.

[@RedVRCC]

The 6S was my last iPhone before switching back to android, I definitely liked my iPhones but as I got more into tweaking and tinkering with my phones, I switched back to android for the increased freedom to modify and customize it. I do have an iPhone 7 laying around, handed down from my parents so I could still access the stuff on the family plan. It's definitely still very much usable.

[@jao69420]

Time flies

[@llorenstorrespr4409]

The tech world haven't had that same feeling about a technology ever since the original iphone cameout in (2007), the world stood still because of the iPhone. (2007) will always be remembered for that!

[@9852323]

People make a bigger deal about the original iPhone coming out now then they did in 2007.

[@STRAWBERRYMoi]

This was peak Technological Innovation.

[@sburton015]

When the original iPhone was released in 2007, I was only 23 years old at the time of its release. I turn 40 in May of this year.

[@arianathearyan]

I turned 23 before the vision pro was released

[@rodcrandall1589]

I got my first Apple lab top in 1997 when I was 16 and I have basically had Apple products since then I’ll be 43 in like two weeks or something like that and I don’t think that will ever change

[@reallyryan_]

Which was massive flop.

[@valentinamartinez4213]

Im 23 now I was 6 🤣🤣🤣

[@sburton015]

@@valentinamartinez4213 I'm 40 now was 23 when the original iPhone released in 2007.

[@sammyt3514]

I had the Nokia N95 when this came out and I remember feeling so smug comparing it to that first iPhone when a friend of mine got one of the latter. I just felt the Nokia had far superior hardware, especially in the camera department, and I saw no way that newfangled iPhone thing was going to make it against competition like that! Little that I knew then that iPhone had just heralded the era when software, rather than hardware, was the main reason people bought a smartphone (which is a term that didn't exist until iPhone came out I believe). With the benefit of hindsight, it's obvious now that there was no way Nokia's Symbian (and its later, ill-fated iterations) could compete with iOS and, later on, Android, no matter how good its hardware was.

[@grabthecat]

what kind of smartphone was iphone with no appstore? I also had N95 at that time which was miles ahead of iphone. To keep in mind the first iphone has didnt have the capabilitie to record video compared with 720p video recording of N95

[@liviuargeseanu388]

​@@grabthecatN95 only had 640x480 recording - not 720p. I belive the N8 was the first nokia with 720p video recording

[@raidev_]

software wasn't a term before the iphone???

[@BleakVision]

Nokia hardware was dreadful. Creaking plastic, awful and tiny resistive touch screens. And every high end of phone was immidiately abandoned support wise. Good riddance.

[@cjmillsnun]

The N95 was the better phone hardware wise. It had 3G and the better camera. However software was what made the difference. iPhoneOS as it was called before iOS 4 was a better user experience. Even the first version was better in terms of UI despite the lack of an app store. But IMO it wasn't the breakthrough phone as its hardware was too limited and the price was too high. That came with the iPhone 3G.

[@rickyrosay33977]

The photos you took from the iphone 2G give off an old school feel reminds of watching a old youtube video using modern youtube they have that grainy, more muted colors makes me nostalgic

[@MrMoogle]

I still clearly remember the first time I saw an iPhone in person. It was on a flight from Salt Lake City to Indianapolis. The guy sitting behind me had one and I asked if I could see it. He was super cool about showing me everything it could do and letting me play around with it. I bought one shortly after when it got the price cut. I was already on Cingular/AT&T at the time so that worked out well. Thinking back on how limited that phone was by today's standards is comical. But at the time, it was amazing.

[@Dwall44]

I love this phone! I still have my dad‘s with the original box! It still works and I plug it in every now and then just so the battery doesn’t go flat.

[@farv7596]

13:50 Omg that air power animation is so good

[@DmytroBogdan]

Steve was an extraordinary speaker none can deny that.

[@Damariobros]

49:24 Steve Jobs and his team not only came up with all this, but they did it while being split up, having it kept secret from each other. The software team never saw the hardware and the hardware team never saw the software until it was time to put them together, and only Steve Jobs knew all the details.

[@bobamarmstrong]

Like the Manhattan Project

[@UltraCenterHQ]

14:33 I feel like Steve would love how companies are moving to one single port. USB C

[@granath55]

Thank you for this video! Watching this on my iPhone 14 pro Max, but my first iPhone was the 4s. First iOS device was the original iPod touch (RIP)! This video is exactly what the iPhone deserves! 🔥🔥🔥

[@phazonlord0098]

Love watching these videos because while the iPhone 2G was groundbreaking for society and the industry in general, it's clearly as day that the first proper iPhone to finally get everything right into a package still recognisable today was the iPhone 4. It was so beautiful and well made that I still regarded it as one of the most beautiful phones ever made and was so happy when Apple brought that design language back with the iPhone 12. I'm still an Android guy through and through but getting back those square sides and USB-C is definitely tempting me to give it a chance.

[@mashy712]

@21:04. I remember that in iOS 2 and 3. Double clicking the home button did open the audio controller. Which was like a small blue bubble with media controls and volume slider under it. (That may be an iPod touch 1st gen thing though)

[@sigiligus]

The iPhone’s big revolutionary feature was the huge (for the time) multitouch screen. It actually had even less functionality than basically any earlier smartphone, but the UI and big capacitive touchscreen are what really changed the market. Remember, iPhone didn’t even launch with copy/paste, an essential feature for business smartphone usage.

[@drakeb6168]

I remember the days when the iPhone was released. Wild to think this is shown as history having lived through the events.

[@sburton015]

The closest device that I have to the original iPhone would be the original iPod touch that Apple released a little later in 2007. It still has iPhone OS 1.1.5, so on this version, the App Store still didn't exist yet. I remember to be able to sync music to it, I had to use an older version of iTunes on a Windows XP PC.

[@rondobrondo]

I think the photos from the older devices actually look better than the photos from the new devices haha. Like from the perspective of an ex-professional photographer, I think they are objectively more pleasing and grounded in fundamental aesthetics of general photos. My dad used to quote something from Jobs that you mention here, "People like to focus on tangibles of photos, like megapixels... we think about how to make better pictures." Or whatever the quote exactly was, since my dad has 'quoted' it so many times that I've gotten it mixed up over the years.

[@MJ-uk6lu]

I wouldn't say they are better, but they are surprisingly not bad and more natural than from latest iphone

[@MudkipOnYT]

Rest in Peace, Sam. You were one of the greatest people I’ve ever had the privilege of being friends with, rest easy, friend. ❤

[@ToddBoniface]

huh? he passed away?

[@MudkipOnYT]

@@ToddBoniface Yes, sadly he did. Was a really hard thing to find out about and it still doesn’t feel real. We posted an announcement about it in the discord about a week ago if you want to go and read up about it.

[@ToddBoniface]

Oh dear. My condolences. He seemed lovely. What’s the discord ?

[@Davehaha2001]

I still have my iPhone 3GS and it’s not restored and it has great iPod features that are long gone and and look so good and make me smile how the iPhone was an iPod and everyone had an iPod and the iPhone had a speaker and would make people jump when you would show them it playing as iPods didn’t have any speakers 🔊

[@rondobrondo]

Love your videos man, I've been binge watching your stuff since yesterday after watching this video. I think you have a great sense and skill for editing. I can also tell who your KZbin inspirations are :3, and I approve there too. You're also a fairly great writer too, even at a young age and fairly early in your career. I've been looking for a tech channel like yours that has just the right ratio of personal opinion to historical fact, with perfect pacing for both of those aspects, with just the right aesthetic in the editing for all my tastes. It's usually not enough to get just a dry history of the facts; it helps to have someone add in enough of their own critical views of the information to provide 'personal context' to the facts. Makes it easy for the viewer to understand where things sit in YOUR opinion and where things sit RELATIVE to each other, without pushing history and fact to the side. It adds additional information to the timeline and lets me temper everything with the context that you provide, both personal and also relevant context to our current understanding of the state of the art. The reason I'm writing all this is because I'm a huge apple fan! lol. And that is because my family has been using their computers since 1981, and I have been personally using them since 1997. My dad is a professional photographer, and so has always been a huge apple fan; and he is a very lazy, but discerning buyer. He only cares about professional productivity and simplicity for his personal products so he can focus on his professional work. He loves to buy the best, but loves simplicity and ease of use, so he's always bought the shiny new apple stuff. And even though I usually don't get his hand me downs because they are too expensive not to sell off later, he'd always get me the low end stuff because he knew I was more of a minimalist, low-expectation kind of person. I am happy using low end stuff that is several years old, and I still am that way. So like iPod shuffle, iPod nano, low end iPhones, giving me old computers from my grandparentsI think apple makes the best laptops in the world, the best phones in the world, best operating system for PC use. They make the best of a lot of things. I was using a 2015 15" MBP that I bought for $1200 for 8 years until my cats broke it lol. Now I'm happily using a 16" M1 MBP that is basically the same size as a 15" MBP 2015. Also, I do have one tip for you as a photographer, I feel like you'd be better off if you kept your camera at a lower angle, like much lower, like orthogonal to your body. Especially with your posture, it tends to leave you at an angle that makes your glasses frames cover your eyes as well as some other strange angle issues. Not tryna tell you how to live, but I think you'd look better with a lower angle. Unless you want your persona to specifically look like a hunched over gargoyle that leaves your hair as the dominant feature of your look. It's not a bad thing if that's what you want to have yourself look. It is definitely much different than the typical tech tuber.

[@psyduck8025]

The live "slide across" demonstration was wild

[@WiscoFisherman93]

Seeing Cydia on one of the iphones is so nostalgic.. I really miss jailbreaking

[@Randomness662]

I don't like using Apple products, and I am 99% of the time using an Android device and 100% of the time on PC, but every time I see that video of Jobs on the stage announcing the first iPhone is chills man. One of my favorite announcement videos

[@Missle1001]

The original iPhone was legendary which still lives on stronger than ever today. I think the natural titanium color on the iPhone 15 pro max looks very similar to the color of the 1st gen iPhone. How times have changed. I can only wonder what the 2027 20 year anniversary iPhone will be like? Or what the 2107 100 year anniversary iPhone edition be like?!

[@geneseetrainselevators2448]

Wow. Using my 14 Pro I personally can’t get over how this used to be top of the line. Can’t wait to see the 16 Pro this fall.

[@EliteObsolete]

We need iTunes phone review

[@AnalyticalMenace]

Anyone remember the "Instinct vs iPhone" commercials back in the day? Those were pretty hilarious!😆

[@sparksfly13]

as for the 2G limitation, Freedom Mobile in Canada still supports 2G!! i have a plan with them and when i put my SIM card into an iPhone 4S, it connected to their 2G network fine, and even made calls. (and i made sure it was on 2G, as i turned off 3G!!)

[@christiangomez2496]

Neat. Most carriers in America killed off 2g with 3g being used for fallback.

[@lorumipsum1129]

I still want that that iPod phone with the rotary dialer btw

[@mashy712]

38:40 They were just earphones. I guess you can call them “EarPods” but just note they did not come out with that name and shape till 2012 with iPhone 5.

[@kaiquemuniz660]

the giant screen is not so giant nowadays hahahahaha... today is a mini screen

[@thedeutschman9905]

Another great video Josh, been a fan since 2019 and it’s incredible to see all the research and effort put into these videos while keeping our interest! From the iPod video to this, I think all of these retrospectives are awesome and have a lot of good insight, once again, thanks for putting in all this effort for us, you’re awesome!

[@sonictonic_]

This was fantastic. Great job. 👌🏼

[@berryblaster21]

Love seeing the AirPower prototype in all the videos :)

[@Imus-Kammer]

Do an episode on jailbreaking

[@RudyCantGame]

I knew a distant relative who owned an itunes phone.

[@Katesgamingcorner]

It’s crazy to think it’s been 17 years since the iPhone came out

[@TheBcoolGuy]

2G will last until December 31st 2025 in Sweden.

[@langstonbelin]

Man, I envy your amazing videos man, I wish I could make videos even half as good as yours

[@photo_n_art]

Actually the first "big screen" smart phone was Dell Streak 5, it was first Android phone with 5 inch screen. I had one and everyone was making fun of me for using a table as a cellphone... now 5 inches screen is considered as small, go figure 🤷‍♂️

[@keithbrown7685]

I could use one. I tried big candybar phones for pockets. No good. Too big. They're even worse now.

[@SpaceSentinel]

It was worth waiting for!

[@o15ika]

This retrospective is amazing and well done and should help people to put perspective about visionOS 1.0 and the first Apple Vision Pro and how it can evolve in the next few years… it’s hype inducing. Great work!

[@miamora01]

I love the sonic music

[@gtr2022]

It’s pronounced “Rockr” and the song limitation was due to the storage. This was mid 2000s. Not sure how old you are but there were many other reasons why Motorola and Apple didn’t work out.

[@keithbrown7685]

I don't know why they got together on a project in the first place.

[@UltraCenterHQ]

18:42 One of the things that I respect about Apple is that they never gave in into the shitty narrow phone trend. They knew that using that thing (specially in landscape) was horrible. Maybe some Steve Job magic still does live on

[@TheBcoolGuy]

5:25 complacency

[@dtincworldnews8922]

This channel ought to be called The iPhone Documentaries.

[@chickeneaster]

Great video, always love what you put out! But super random question, for your weather do you use celsius or Fahrenheit?

[@keithbrown7685]

We use Celsius in Canada, which is what everyone should be using.

[@coralynnboyce]

The king is back

[@Nikaarose]

Thank you for this. I love your long retrospective videos. Especially the ones about Apple.

[@keithbrown7685]

Just to get something clear, are we talking about memory or storage space. I keep hearing storage space referred to as "memory" or worse, "ram". That sort of stuff has the potential to confuse and misinform the hell out of people. RAM (random access memory) is the temporary working space where creation and viewing content normally happens. Storage space (or internal storage) is more of a permanent place to store what you've created or seen/heard, and want to put away for later retrieval.

[@cattisturis166]

You need an adaptor for the headphone jack

[@LeonTichy]

I would argue it’s actually still very usable today, however it’s a big lifestyle change especially over long periods of time. Use it for 3 months and see how everything slows down around you.

[@bigbirdsmurderer4168]

The search bar slander is wack, it's so useful now lol

[@gentuxable]

Well the Dell x51 PDA had a better screen but Apple nailed finger friendly UI that well there were many people who wouldn’t have bought a PDA

[@vairavidan]

The Original iPhone looked like a MagSafe power bank on the back of the Max size iPhones

[@Laohu313]

This is amazing

[@matthewrichardson2533]

first iphone i watched stuff, looked at socials, took pics and played a mobile game sometimes.... 17 years annd tens of thousands of dollars later most of us are on social media, watching stuff and maybe playing a mobilegame...

[@macelius]

Least they can FINALLY copy and paste.. XD In 2007 I was already streaming shoutcast in my car using an HTC with WIndows Mobile.

[@grabthecat]

was antique even at that point mate :))

[@zGhillie]

I really miss my old iPhone 4 loved that thing. Wish these new ones still had a home button and bigger bezels. The amount of times I accidentally hit something is crazy

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

A lot of remote emergency services rely on 2g networks, a lot of older equipment, cars even (when 3g will shut down, these will fall back on 2g, maby a lot of car manufacturers in the us use t-mobile as their carrier of choice?), here in europe, 2g will be around for at least a couple more years, 3g will get shut down, to make room for 4g and 5g infrastructure. I still have my iPhone 2G i recharge from time to time, the battery has been replaced a couple of times, but it still works! Only a problem with wifi, but since this phone is useless anyway, i am not mad about that, i think i dropped it too many times, and yet, my screen is not cracked!

[@rondobrondo]

I think Apple has learned their lesson without Steve Jobs and realized that they need to go back to what works for people and what fundamental qualities and features people really want and need the most. It's why iPhones are going back to their design roots, it's why apple silicon looks and feels more like 2012-2015 MacBook more than 2016-2019, etc. And I am happier with their products than ever. I completely skipped everything from 2016-2024, with the exception of the iPhone XS after my 5s got destroyed :/

[@PointWithin]

I miss Koi Pond

[@CSXEK]

The 1st iphone came out i graduated kindergarten in 2007 the same year

[@nicholas.alan85]

WELL DONE JOSH.

[@pernilsson2394]

My first and only Ipone was a Iphone 3gs. I liked the size.

[@anirocks11]

In 2007 4gb ram was common in PCs. So iPhone RAM capacity was extremely tiny even back then.

[@S-1_24-25]

I’d say it was 2GB. 4GB became more common in 2010-2012

[@cheekibreekigopnik5898]

@@S-1_24-25Agreed, my 2012 MacBook Pro had 4 GB until I upgraded it to 8 GB.

[@CM51PRO]

How long did it take for you to edit this video?

[@pauluscelik4685]

That were the days where ronaldinho was play with the football like magic!

[@jamesburke2759]

Also have to add, jobs was probably "inventng" the concept of the iphone as he was talking about the motorolla.

[@bruno3833]

Used to rock whitedoor on my iphone 2g until it dropped into sea water

[@lorumipsum1129]

As someone who remembers this day and the iPhones up tilt he four, my opinion is that it did great because it did the basics really swell, and in a way that just worked, yet was so amazing people wanted it. I feel if the carriers hadn’t been such dicks we might’ve gotten more devices like the iPhone earlier or sooner

[@slob5041]

18:39 I think he would’ve mostly because his opinions were always changing and evolving. Ive would’ve likely pushed him into a compromise with the 6.

[@chefbonecrusher7980]

Why is it ridiculous that they don’t include a charging brick? I think that was something that most people accepted fairly quickly. I don’t recall anybody being particularly upset. It just seemed like the right thing to do considering we all have like 1 million laying around the house anyways. I don’t buy a phone for the charging brick.

[@louanthonydanzilnaniong1987]

Just look how small the iPhone before , compared today’s iPhone.

[@BrenGunning]

Having no charger brick is the right thing. I have a house full of old plugs and cables - I don't need more. It's a waste of resources making them.

[@PointWithin]

New iPhones are just so focused on the camera “improvements” that it’s ridiculous.

[@virtualwrestling4352]

Imagine sending this to space to be found an by another ….

[@smugwolff6828]

i used to make a living off fixing this and the 3g/3gs miss that because they were so easy

[@idontgetnotifiedaboutrepli2332]

Bro your posture

[@Beaula2]

Daily driving the best iPhone (SE 1st Gen) in 2024 gang gang

[@jaypaint4855]

Did you say SEVENTEEN YEARS? Seventeen years? Is that real? It’s not twelve? Seriously?

[@MrPotteeMouf]

Finally, us non paying peasants can watch this

[@91Tech]

haha I'm sorry

[@MrPotteeMouf]

@@91Tech 🤪

[@AnthonyChopra]

My iPhone3gs with ios3.1.2 is watching. ps no appstore = its Justified to get the old apps via other means on a device thats 20yrs old hahah its apples fault for not being good at super legacy apps for ios2 and Later. also some like me did loose my 2008 account in 2022 so ii lost the paid apps too but i still braught them i kept the resept anyways but on my 3gs i installed only a few old apps.

[@grabthecat]

Maybe someone can explain what was so revolutionary in the first iphone?

[@Paradiiiice]

How old are you? 😂 you had to be there….trust me

[@grabthecat]

@@Paradiiiice Still waiting for some expert examples. I`m 35 y old

[@ReadtheBible88]

All other phone companies copied iPhone.

[@grabthecat]

@@ReadtheBible88 What did they copy? For example

[@ReadtheBible88]

@@grabthecat Read the book.

[@randomgamingin144p]

15:29 aged well because umm apple pencil..

[@rickyjr.nomura9235]

It was pronounced as "rocker" and no one ever pronounced it as "roku".

[@airshiphead]

Sorry dude, but the reductionist way you dismiss display technology is disingenuous. The iPhone XR cost $750 at launch. Yes the display was good enough for the layman, but is it acceptable for a company to advertise a blatant cost-saving measure as some sort of innovation, or "good enough", when competitors are advertising devices less than half the price, that can output better, even back then? This is why the US Government is suing, people have been told it's good when it isn't and when they've asked for alternatives they've been trapped in the ecosystem.

[@sigiligus]

Well you see, Apple fanboys are total morons. This has been known for decades now.

[@EastMontana1]

17 years later and we still locked in the same technology. Since Jobs death nothing has changed inside and out of this company. And it seems that will be until someone out there will bring something new to the world.... If they allow ....

[@jamesburke2759]

I think jobs would be rolling in his grave over the vision and hate the fact the iphone is getting worse not better. The worst part is apple built themselves on being the cheaper better alternative. The mac 2 was $999 when the ibm was $1599, the imac was $999 when a pc was about $1399, and the iphone was $399 when a gps, phone and ipod would cosy you much more. the damn macbook air m1 was only $999 thats a bargain for that pc. a $2000 iphone is too much for a device that does one thing.

[@warrenhinkle1565]

I have an iPhone SE 3 and I love it

[@Gamecaleb]

I was the 2007th view

[@SinisterSaneW]

yeee

[@jorgezarco9269]

I don't see an "eye" on that iPhone.

[@pdr770]

אפל תדרוש מחברות הסלולר בארץ ובארצות הברית יותר כסף על סלולר וממיקרוסופט בחוזים על אופיס באייפון ומקבוק ומק יש לנו לנו על מה להישען טים בהודאה בכלכליסט וערוצי חדשות כלכליים.

[@pdr770]

ותדרוש מגוגל 35 מיליארד טים על השירותים החדשים שיצרה לה למשל בעיצוב החדש ומהפכני ליוטוב ועיצוב לספארי טוב בהרבה בiOS ומק OSאם אתה זוכר סונדאר בשווי מאות מיליארדים לכל פלטפורמה למעלה מימין לשמאל עם עיגולים ביוטוב, יש לנו מוצרים מעולים לגוגל טים יותר ממה שאפשר לזכור עם מוח מבריק. כולל אפלקציה ארגונית לחיפוש עיתונים בגוגל למעלה למשל עיתונים כלכליים ועיתוני מוסיקה בעברית בחיפוש בגוגל למעלה מימין לשמאל בספארי ב100K בשנה הבאה.

[@sigiligus]

>jew complaining about someone taking his money

[@steveb1972]

This video compounds my confusion of Apple being accused of monopoly when they CREATED the whole smartphone market!!!! 🙄

[@renst3163]

Then you clearly dont understand the merits of the lawsuit lmao

[@emmanuelgonzales586]

Dude you keep showing this steve jobs showing the 1st iphone for like a like a 100th time now do you have other content idea beside this????jezzz...unsubscribing

[@drakeb6168]

Bai, this isn’t an airport. We don’t need the announcement