How Apple Made the First iPhone

[@owencooktech]

Hey dude! Thank for watching! As always, I’ll put any mistakes here in the pinned comment! Have a great day. #1: at 10:02 I call it the 3gs. I noticed this but was unable to fix it in the edit, it just didn't sound right and it was too late to re record. It was the 3g. The 3gs didn't come out till later.

[@TicTacBell_]

What about history of android

[@owencooktech]

@@TicTacBell_ might just have to try that. See you in two weeks.

[@abduluthman918]

I remember when my dad got an iPhone back then, it was literally the coolest thing ever. I remember comparing it with my brother’s Motorola and just being blown away by how cool it was. Steve Jobs did get his wish, he did change the world one more time. Also I’m a new subscriber and I’m absolutely loving the videos. Keep it up Man 👍🏾

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude! Happy to have you!

[@OliourRahmanDigonto]

this is the type of content I watch while eating 🤣 long videos with information about something that will do nothing in my life😂

[@owencooktech]

Lmao that's what I'm here for dude.

[@teapot401]

same

[@kokorohiro2430]

me right now

[@joshshapiro175]

That’s a very silly thing to say. This invention I’m sure you use every day. Clearly you take it for granted. I can understand that but if you take a step back it’s very cool!

[@martinschirmmann9551]

Me right now

[@andrehinds568]

The most concise and accurate retelling of the iPhone origin story I’ve ever seen. However, the iPhone 3G was the second version. The 3Gs didn’t come out for another year after that.

[@owencooktech]

@@andrehinds568 yeah I noticed that in the edit. Too late to re-record it. No matter how much I cut it, it just sounded unnatural. I should probably add that to the notes. Thanks for reminding me

[@andrehinds568]

@@owencooktech I don't want you to think I was dumping on your video to point out the single mistake I found in your effort. In less than 11 minutes, you explain something that takes every other video creator an hour and a half to explain. Plus, you managed to hit ALL the high points of the subject -- the points that I've always felt were both the most important and the most interesting. I would presume that you have spent much more time in this century than in the last one, so as someone who was 51 years old when the first iPhone came out, I congratulate you on your superb research and your excellent ability to distill the information into such a nicely written package. I spent my career as a journalist, and I don't think I could have done as good a job on this subject.

[@owencooktech]

@@andrehinds568 thanks man that means a lot. Thanks for all the kind words. As you guessed, I was born in 07 so this is all research no memory. Have a great day!

[@joshthekiwi1540]

Absolutely loved this man, never watched a low view video on my recommended. So glad I did!

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude! I'm so glad you liked it.

[@Suhrid]

Oh my God, this channel is absolute gold. As I was watching, I had fully assumed this was a channel with millions of subs. As I finished the video, I noticed the 8k subs and was mind blown. Thank you for your videos. They’re awesoke

[@owencooktech]

Thanks dude! Somehow I misssed your comment. You're the best!

[@Chillrogg]

Nicely made video bro

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude!

[@Ccg9024]

I was just about to turn 17 when the iPhone was announced and I remember watching the keynote that day. It was a big deal that changed everything. Even if you are not an Apple fan, the iPhone paved the path for how your favorite andorid phone works as early prototypes for Android were more of a blackberry copy. One thing to note is that the only reason why the demo worked was because Jobs followed a specific path. He had little flow charts that told him what apps to open and in what order and going off that path could have crashed the phone not to mention having special internals just to project the phone on that screen as it was something that was never done before.

[@owencooktech]

Yeah, no kidding. That's crazy. I didn't find that in my research.

[@MSThalamus-gj9oi]

Made me laugh when you said "If you're old enough to remember when Steve Jobs" announced the iPhone. I remember when he announced he *Macintosh*. :)

[@owencooktech]

Yeah I think most of my audience was around for it. I wasn’t though. I was born in 07.

[@Darkest_matter]

@@owencooktech damn... so you're.. 17??? i thought you were like 25.

[@owencooktech]

@@Darkest_matter yeah lol I get that a lot.

[@danielosawaru9045]

I love how you present your videos, so easy to understand

[@owencooktech]

@@danielosawaru9045 thanks dude that means a lot. I try really hard to make this videos accurate and accessible

[@colt5189]

The amazing thing about the original iPhone is that they had to solve several different problems at the same time in order to get a usable device. It was like building a house of cards, where one thing not working would cause the whole thing to fail. I still remember when the original iPhone came out. And I could have paid cash for one, but I thought $400 or whatever for a phone was stupid. As I had generally only spent around $50 for a cell phone.

[@owencooktech]

Yeah for sure. It's a crazy number of things that has to go right.

[@LeseanDeVon]

I like how this is kinda like the Coldfusion video but in a more TLDR version. Good vid btw.

[@owencooktech]

@@LeseanDeVon thanks dude. I used that video as a source. Maybe that's why it seems sort of similar. Happy you enjoyed

[@RAJ.769]

Yesterday, you uploaded a video that was recommended to me perhaps the "algorithm" has figured out my love for small phones and now I'm hooked to this channel.

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude! Happy to have you aboard!

[@nelsoncharts]

bro deserved to be a developer in Apple😆

[@owencooktech]

That would be sick ngl.

[@producedbypodcast]

Always interesting topics, keep up the great work! 🔥

[@owencooktech]

Thanks dude! You're the best!

[@Briefiology]

I love your content. Also I am an nostalgic fan of iPhone. ❤

[@owencooktech]

Totally! I'm the same.

[@driftboard]

INSANELY underrated man! I'd recommend getting a lavalier mic and adding some background music

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my guy! Appreciate it!

[@davicrivelaro]

That’s some good content Congrats bro

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude! Glad you enjoyed.

[@Briefiology]

I am agree❤

[@Zomboy4313]

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about AcornOS, which was literally a widescreen iPod with touch control. I think it was the OS made by the iPod team

[@KAVITechShow]

Great video bro 🙌🏻

[@owencooktech]

@@KAVITechShow thanks my dude!

[@Briefiology]

Yes♥️

[@TheLegendryZelda]

Wow didn't realized it's been 11 years since the passed

[@owencooktech]

11 years since what?

[@Archived_Rem]

🤣 "hey dude"

[@rayphoenix7296]

I like to think of this video as being the prequel to George Mason having to live with nothing but the first iPhone for 24 hours.

[@owencooktech]

@@rayphoenix7296 lmao.

[@hamodalbatal464]

Great report

[@owencooktech]

Thanks dude!

[@danh5637]

The reason people laughed at the time was there were rumours on the Apple rumour sites that they were releasing a phone but that Apple couldn’t acquire the trademark iPhone as it was owned by someone else. So when they finally revealed the name people laughed because they were shocked after all the hype they would never get that name - they got it. It was a big deal at the time. Everyone basically assumed they would do like with Apple TV (as ITV is a known company in the UK and they also couldn’t get trademark) that it was going to be called Apple Phone. So what you’re hearing is amazement! 😂

[@rt_goblin_hours]

It's so weird to think of how innovative they were but now they just feel... Stagnant

[@owencooktech]

Yeah it's mostly due to jobs dying. No hate to tim Cook but he doesn't have the vision Steve did. Steve was an asshole, but all visionaries are.

[@rt_goblin_hours]

@@owencooktech yeah, and anytime they release something new they've waited for tech to show itself. It could they shake up the phone market with like nano tech or something it'd be amazing

[@Creeperbreh]

Nice vid 👍🏻

[@owencooktech]

Thanks my dude

[@ThePeterCorne]

The following year apple released the iPhone 3G NOT the 3GS

[@owencooktech]

Yeah. Check the pinned comment.

[@VanceWarren83]

I remember hearing rumours about Apple bringing out a phone. I just remember hearing that it was like an iPod, you could use the internet and you could watch videos on it. Meanwhile being a phone. It sounded ludicrous. The latest iPod at the time had video playback. Most phones could use the internet (but they were terribly slow!) so nothing seemed new. But to have all these things in a phone…..? Crazy! Back then, you would use your phone to call and text. That’s it. Why would you want to watch videos on your phone? Listen to music on your phone? It made no sense. And well, here I am watching this video on my iPhone 16 pro. Evidently I ended up working for Apple in the early 2010’s. Technology is both confusing and exciting.

[@YindrichFutureSound]

What's next ? Is out there other "Steve Jobs" who will bring the next invention ?

[@owencooktech]

@@YindrichFutureSound I can tell you one thing it sure as hell isn't the Apple vision pro.

[@YindrichFutureSound]

@owencooktech I completely agree with you. If Steve Jobs were still with us, I believe we would be much further ahead in terms of technology. He was a true visionary, and his loss is a great one for humanity.

[@Caliko1]

How can you guys disregard the Apple Watch and AirPods?

[@owencooktech]

@@Caliko1 I'm not doing that at all. Neither of those were as big as the iPhone. The "next innovation" will cause us to ditch iPhones. It won't be an iPhone accessory.

[@Caliko1]

@@owencooktech That's a huge goal though. Apple has been innovating but to isolate the "next innovation" to something the size of iPhone is almost impossible. That next innovation is years off or may never come.

[@danielgartin-oh9ik]

I finally own the iPhone, an iPhone SE 2020, my first iPhone ever

[@owencooktech]

@@danielgartin-oh9ik sweet dude!

[@danielgartin-oh9ik]

@@owencooktech Yes, except it needs a new battery, my insurance covers that however

[@kazi1]

🔥🔥🔥

[@supaasandy9807]

The iPhone in the thumbnail is like me 🥹

[@MikeLikesChannel]

Had Apple not launched the iPhone, it's very likely Google and Microsoft would be the major phone players today, and when iPods as music players inevitably got replaced by Droids and Windows phone, Apple would have quietly been acquired because PowerPC Macs alone at the time, were not going to be enough to stay afloat.

[@owencooktech]

Yeah, but I don't think Google would have made a smartphone that next year. I think it would have taken him a couple of years and we'd be far behind what we are now. Back in the day iPhone used to be the one that innovated.

[@demoman1596sh]

Apple had already switched to Intel in early 2006, so PowerPC was already very much going away by the time the iPhone was presented to the public. But your point totally still stands.

[@cjxgraphics]

In some parallel universe we’re all still using Nokia phones.

[@owencooktech]

@@cjxgraphics lmao no kidding.

[@Derpy1969]

They were actually working on the iPad and jobs said “this could be a phone”.

[@Wanted797]

10:03 3Gs ? 😋

[@owencooktech]

Yeah that's my bad whoops.

[@MSThalamus-gj9oi]

RE: Steve Jobs and Apple, both are true, more or less. He was fired from his position as Chairman of the Board and then later left Apple of his own accord. That can be a hard thing for people to wrap their heads around. How can someone be fired from a position but not from the company? Really, it's an overuse of the word "fired." He was removed from one role in the company and assigned another lesser role. It was a demotion, plain and simple. This wounded his ego, and so he did exactly what every company hopes someone they've demoted will do: he left the company. Firing a salaried employee is harder than you might think. Most corporations opt to make the person's life as awful as they can in the hopes that they simply walk away.

[@kennya6921]

Interesting. That said: you've made a load of incorrect assumptions and untrue statements about mobile/cellular phones pre- and early- iphone

[@owencooktech]

Well old cell phones are kinda my thing. I'd love to hear what you think I got wrong!

[@kennya6921]

@@owencooktech OK, the main issues are about 2.30--3.30 mins: the idea that there is, or should be, a 'designated form factor and size' is a strange assumption that only makes sense in hindsight. You need only look at offerings today (8 in iphone line up currently) and all the further variety outwith the apple bubble to see a very different picture. Same goes for the assumption that it was handsets' 'complicated nature' rather than a far more series of multiple complicated cost/benefit ratios (include money cost, connectivity and coverage, but mainly lifestyle--many people didn't see beyond their landline). You can look at a range and say nothing was intuitive in hindsight, but many millions of people used T9 for very fast and accurate typing that also adapted into 'txt spk'. It's interesting that you showed a touchscreen T9 mock-up, as it has been within android for many years, and it looks like iOS 18 (18!) will now get it in the dialler app. One might think that the lack of copy/paste in iphone was unintuitive or, even now, that apple's continuing approach to the iphone kb that makes it quicker and easier to dictate anything that includes text, punctuation, numbers, and other symbols. The mobile/cellphone market was already mature when the iphone and android made the stage, and use cases had changed in that time. The iphone, as influential as it has been, was a product of those other aspects rather than the catalyst--what it and android captured was the shift into more widespread, affordable and useful mobile/cellular internet and the slow proliferation of wifi enabled spaces including malls, department stores, and eating/drinking outlets followed by more public wifi coverage. This is where the iphone/android shone brightest. None of this changes your central points or narrative. It's a good summation of early iphone development. Just many of the underlying assumptions are questionable.

[@kennya6921]

@@owencooktech strange. I wrote and posted a very detailed explanation that was still positive to your video.

[@Bonzibud69]

Dude everyone had phones back then what are you talking about

[@Bonzibud69]

Japanese phones were pretty good at the time

[@Kalinforrinco]

The LG Prada was the first smartphone ever with a capacitive touchscreen, months before the iPhone. It doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

[@HasanWaheedi]

apple is walking nokia path with no more innovasion, only absurd prices

[@owencooktech]

Lol yeah it's been the same since iPhone 11

[@TecoTurtle]

True pepole are do dumb they think that expensive prices means the device is better NO IT IS NOT!!!!

[@otaviolavagnoli]

It wasn’t quite like that.

[@owencooktech]

Wdym? I'd love to hear what I got wrong.

[@otaviolavagnoli]

@@owencooktech I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. I feel like it’s kinda very summarized, Steve went to a lunch with his wife, and a friend of hers that he hated was there, he worked at Microsoft and mentioned that Microsoft was revolutionizing the industry with a “tablet”, got pissed, things happened, they got to know the company with the touch things, then the table with the touch sensitive ideas was made… then the idea of the iPad, then in a lunch he saw that people used their phones but they hated, so he downsized the iPad idea, and started thinking of the iPhone. There are videos and articles on that.

[@mr.w7803]

So many small incorrect little bits in this video, not unwatchable but dude… fact check yourself.

[@pumpkinjunkin]

it was too late to re-record. check the pinned comment.

[@owencooktech]

I'd love to hear what you think I got wrong! I try really hard to factually represent my videos. Can't wait to hear from you!

[@Spoonfed78]

IBM Simon for one (1992)