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Posted on 06/29/2016 10:29:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple started selling the Apple iPhone nine years ago today.
Here is what Apple's press release had to say:
iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a revolutionary multi-touch display and pioneering new software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers. iPhone combines three products into one small and lightweight handheld device - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and the Internet in your pocket with best-ever applications on a mobile phone for email, web browsing and maps. iPhone ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.
Apple was right to describe the iPhone as revolutionary. It changed the world.
But what I find particularly remarkable is that despite Apple selling such a popular mobile computing device for nine years, there has still been no major outbreak of malware on the platform.
The attacks we have seen on iOS have either been against vulnerable jailbroken iPhones (a state which Apple has made harder to achieve with successive generations of the iOS operating system) or through sophisticated targeted attacks such as exploiting enterprise provisioning features, or infecting iOS devices through Mac OS X via a USB cable.
The fact that hackers had to go to the effort of publishing a tampered version of Apple's XCode library on third-party sites in the hope that iOS developers would download and use it to compile their code is testament to just how hard criminals have found it to sneak malware into the official App Store.
These factors have meant that if your iPhone ever gets infected by malware at all, there's a good chance that a state-sponsored attacker is responsible.
So, happy birthday iPhone. Yes, you have had your fair share of vulnerabilities, lock screen bypasses and poorly-coded third-party apps... but you have done a remarkable job of fending off major malware attacks.
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where does Android stand on the malware front?
I still use a Motorola Moto X from a few years ago.... haven’t been aware of any issues but I don’t know what I don’t know... heh
thanks to anyone for any info
damn, I’m sorry I just searched on “android malware” ... ugh, what a nasty world out there!
Well I use very few apps and never click on an unfamiliar link, so I hope that gives me some degree of protection.
Rubbish swordy
My i6+ has all kinds of overrides and popups
Maybe it ain’t malware but it’s a pain
The worst is the trigger to flip to app marketing for games from random browser pages
iPhones are worse than droids for unwanted ads
I’m used to mine now but I was fine with my last droid and the glass......don’t get me started....smart phones for snowflakes that break
I think they can break if you yell at them
Not to mention Apple is liberal turd tech central
That I own nine Apple devices is a testament to my whorish unprincipled nature and a predilection to spoil my loin issue
The new Sammy looks good from here
Aren’t you in Cupertino?
Make em do right
Nine years ago phone history was made when the first iPhone went on sale. I was there to write the first CNET review.
Friday, June 29, 2007—James Martin—CNET
It was a frenzy outside San Francisco's downtown Apple store on the evening of June 29, 2007.
Nine years ago I was standing outside the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco waiting for the very first iPhone to be released.
It was a balmy summer evening (by San Francisco standards) and the Financial District bars were filling with Friday happy-hour crowds eager to start the weekend. But for former CNET editor Donald Bell and me, our workday was just beginning.
Our assignment that evening was to pick up our iPhone review model and head back to the office to start writing the CNET review, published in realtime while we tested Apple's new device for the first time. The plan was that in a few hours we'd know whether it lived up to its stratospheric hype.
The Scene Outside
The phone was to go on sale at 6 p.m. sharp. By the time we arrived, the enormous crowd amassing on the sidewalk was spilling onto the street, nearly blocking the traffic that struggled to pass by.
On one side of the store, a queue of eager buyers that had started to form early in the week was wrapping around the corner and out of sight. On the other side, scores of spectators swarmed against the windows eager for a look while employees inside prepared for the onslaught.
Chaos is a strong word now, but not so much at the time as I was nearly flattened against the store's glass wall by people pushing in for a look. Finally, the magic hour came and a scene unfolded that has now been repeated many times: The doors opened and cheering, clapping employees formed two lines to greet the excited customers filing in.
We had no time to waste. Donald and I quickly picked up our phone and hurried back to the office to hunker down and get to work. We started with the First Look video that you can watch above (when did I ever have that much hair?) and then started poking and prodding the phone while noting our observations in a CNET blog post (sorry, but I can't find that link). By 2 a.m. we were done and CNET's first iPhone review was finished and live. It took some pizza, a couple of beers and a few hours in an empty office.
(Photo gallery of competing phones at site)
A New Kind of Phone
Reading back now, it's remarkable how different it was from any other phone on the market at the time. Many of us, me included in 2007, still used flip phones that didn't do much besides make calls. Sure, other "smartphones" existed, but they used mobile software from Palm, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. The first two were fine, but Windows Mobile? Even back then I said don't bother.
The story of the first iPhone wasn't that it had features we'd never seen before, but that it presented them better. Beyond a user interface that didn't need an instruction manual, that story was true for the all-touchscreen design, the music and video player, the mobile browser and the easy integration of the first apps like email, Google Maps and YouTube (the actual iOS App Store would come later, of course).
Sure it was missing some very basic things, such as 3G, stereo Bluetooth, voice dialing and video recording on the (2-megapixel!) camera. We made a fuss about those omissions, but they eventually arrived. Likewise, while we praised the beginnings of iOS, it took a while before we got necessary things like multitasking (well, Apple's version of it), cut and paste, and multimedia messaging. Oh, and that non-removable battery? At the time it was an outrage, but now it's commonplace. And how small it looks today!
Even with those first iPhone shortfalls, popular smartphones with physical keyboards such as the Palm Treo, Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack and Nokia N95 looked like antiques before too long. BlackBerry phones, fueled by a passionate and devoted user base, are still around. But the company's power is a shadow of what it once was. Google countered a year later with the Android OS (born on the T-Mobile G1, aka HTC Dream) and a ferocious rivalry commenced.
Nine years later it's a common cliche, and perhaps simplistic, to say that the iPhone brought the smartphone into the mainstream. But it's also true.
What are you talking about? I don't get them. . . and if you are talking about getting pop up ads, you are on the wrong websites. That's not malware. It's just ads from the website. Not malware. Complain to the owner of the website or get an ad blocker.
I and my family members have had iPhones for nine years and never broken a single one. Same thing in my office. Gorilla glass is tough.
Exactly. My iPhone 6S is particularly bad in the “Apple News” app. Frequently, when I start to read one of the articles, my screen gets overtaken by an ad or video. Very annoying.
Thanks for posting and hard to believe it’s been only nine years. It’s hard to remember a time when I didn’t have the Internet, the world, in my pocket.
I just upgraded to an iPhone 6S plus last week and I am very impressed with the larger screen real estate, the battery performance, the new camera features and the 3D Touch capability.
I remember seeing my first iPhone at a July 4th barbecue in 2007. A neighbor of a friend of mine was showing it off and he was the most popular guy there. A group of guys, including myself, formed a semi-circle around him the whole afternoon as our wives sat in their lawn chairs shaking their heads at us. The whole ride home my wife said No, No, No.
Never could understand why women do not get excited about gadgets and technology. Eventually I got my company to move me from a Blackberry to an iPhone and I never looked back. I did try out a Samsung Android device on a personal plan a few years back but still preferred the clean, crisp businesslike interface of iOS, though I do appreciate certain aspects of the Android platform. The Microsoft mobile platform was forced on me at one point at work and I thought it was awful. I led the charge to get our IT department back into the iOS camp and even they had to agree that the iOS platform ended up being much more secure and stable than what Microsoft had to offer. The boys in Redmond really missed the boat on mobile devices.
I have not had the experiences that wardaddy claims in his post and I wonder if he’s just being a curmudgeon. All my Apple devices including iPods, iPads and MacBook Pros have performed flawlessly and have been so completely free of malware that I forget it is still a problem for many other non Apple using folks. All of them still have the original batteries and I’ve never had screen damage. And I’m a bit clumsy, so I do drop my devices from time to time. I do wrap my iPhones in shock resistant cases and usually apply a screen protector. However, with my new iPhone 6S I wonder if I need screen protection at all as it is said to have even stronger glass than Gorilla glass.
>I do wrap my iPhones in shock resistant cases and usually apply a screen protector.<
It’s amazing what a little common sense with an expensive device will prevent. My 1st iPhone met an untimely end when it got run over by a heavily loaded cart. I purchased a top rated Otterbox for its replacement and, knock wood, have not had a problem since pairing my iPhones with their Otterboxes. My daughter’s current iPhone is a mass of cracks, because she insists on leaving it naked and vulnerable. Her choice.
I can promise you if your entire families have unbroken iPhone screens you’re the exception
Popups are a pain yes
But the redirects to my Apps is a bigger hinderence to sell apps out of my apps can only be done via Apple being complicit
iTunes has seen the light though and is now mimicking Raphsody at 12.99 a month but for six rather than three devices
Apple wins ergonomics and cachet no question
I own 5 iPhone 6plus phones all with the protector on the glass
All are shattered
The cool thing is they all still work
I have a guy replaces glass for 80-100 bucks
Otters help but they are clumsy as hell
I broke mine with a 3 foot drop from the tub onto marble the second day I got it
And I don’t have anything to do with tech or Apple
It’s just a tool and entertainment for me
I never ever broke a droid
I have five kids and four have iphone six plus as do I
My wife has a late model galaxy and brother an edge
My nine employees have droids of some sort
All Verizon
I am completely impartial utterly and will wax objective about the highs and lows
Apple enthusiasts are like a cult literally with the adulation of frigging phone
Can I imagine someone going ape shit over their Curtis Mathis when I was a boy?
Maybe over a cool car until 1973.....
I used a screen protector only once. I hated the tiny bubbles (Thanks, Don Ho) that were inevitable to get when applying one, so I took it off and never used one again. The one I got came in a pack of five. Four of them are still in a junk drawer somewhere.
The screens that Apple uses are still Corning Gorilla Glass, just a Gorilla Glass that is a proprietary version for Apple that is a bit stronger than Gorilla Glass IV. Recall that when Apple was toying with switching to Sapphire screens that Corning went on a campaign to denigrate sapphire as a screen material claiming that while it may be harder it was actually more brittle than their Gorilla Glass. Apple returned to the Corning fold when only 10% of the 240 pound sapphire boules being produced by Apple's sapphire producer were successfully surviving the long cooling phase without developing disastrous radial cracks, when the contract required at least 80% success to meet production standards.
Apple no longer specifically names Gorilla Glass as a product being used as they did in the earlier iPhone marketing, but Corning is listed among one of Apple's primary suppliers in their supply chain listings for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and MacBooks.
Uh, no. Apple does not have to be complicit. That's advertising on websites. . . and it will come up on rotation from Google. Apple addressed the growing ad problem with the release of iOS 9 to allow ad blocking. There are both paid and free System level ad blockers for iOS. They do not block ads in apps that require upgrade to pay versions to get rid of ads.
There was a fan base of Curtis Mathis devices in the 1960s. My dad was one of them. There was even a fan club. LOL! They were pretty well built TVs and radios compared to any other make out there.
The Samsung Galaxy Edge has a far higher screen breakage rate than does any model iPhone. That wrap around design is very prone to being hit if dropped. There's no protection on that edge. . . and the cost of the replacement screen is around $250.
Maybe over a cool car until 1973.....
I don't know about that cut off year. My girlfriend is really crazy about her 2015 Corvette Stingray and I am really liking my 2014 Lincoln MKZ. LOL!
One thing to be careful about is sand. I read that many screens get scratched by ordinary sand that gets into your pockets. So if I'm at the beach, the phone stays in the glove compartment. Who wants to take calls at the beach anyhow? I have a beat up Kindle that I can take on the beach for reading.
One Apple experience stands out. I have a 2011 version of the MacBook Pro. Last year the display started crapping out. I could always get it going again by rebooting but it started happening more and more. I took it to the Apple Store fully expecting for them to hit me up with an expensive repair and I was fully prepared to just buy a new laptop. But to my surprise, they told me that the fix was for free and all I had to do was leave it overnight with them. This was a four-year old laptop with no extended warranty! Next day I get it back like brand new and it's never been a problem since.
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