

“But, despite its network limitations, the iPhone is a whole new experience and a pleasure to use.” “Expectations for the iPhone have been so high that it can’t possibly meet them all,” wrote Mossberg for his then-employer, the Wall Street Journal. (Pun intended.) Still, with some billing the iPhone as the “God device,” many had trouble seeing how the iPhone - or any phone - could live up to all the publicity. “This is the most anticipated telephone since Alexander Graham Bell’s,” said Gartenberg.Ĭonsidering former Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs declared that the iPhone would “reinvent the phone,” Gartenberg’s statement doesn’t land too far from the apple tree.

Others, like Michael Gartenberg, an analyst for Jupiter Research, disagreed. “It’s a little frightening,” said Jay Somaney, a hedge fund manager with TSG Capital in Plano, Texas to former Mercury News reporter Troy Wolverton five months after the iPhone was revealed. There was hype everywhere, which soon was proven to be justified.

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How to turbocharge your iPhone photographyĪfter the famous reveal in San Francisco in January 2007, this news organization wrote extensively about the revolutionary smartphone building up to its release in stores 10 years ago Thursday.
