I've never owned one, but I remember how excited people were when it came out. It certainly changed things. From CBS This Morning which aired on Sunday June 25.
The iPhone "Hello" commercial which aired on Oscar night 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmiWTKZzBLY&feature=youtu.be
It took another year for the App Store to start up.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-iphone-turns-10/
Ten years ago this week, the iPhone arrived in stores -- and the world was never the same.
Because of the iPhone, we now take it for granted that we're on the Internet all of the time. Because of the iPhone, we have everything from an old Radio Shack ad in our pockets: Computer, calculator, camcorder, alarm clock, phone, music player, answering machine, and tape recorder.
Because of the iPhone, hardly anyone buys maps anymore, or pocket cameras, or watches.
In January 2007, Jobs took the stage to unveil it: "An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator. ... Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone."
That iPhone wouldn't actually go on sale for another six months. During that time, nobody outside Apple was allowed to see the phone or touch the phone.
The iPhone "Hello" commercial which aired on Oscar night 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmiWTKZzBLY&feature=youtu.be
It took another year for the App Store to start up.
A year after the iPhone came out, Apple introduced the App Store, a central catalogue of free or cheap little programs written by programmers all over the world. That's when iPhone sales really went through the stratosphere.
And just those apps have launched entire industries! Think of Uber, the ride-sharing company valued at $68 billion. Or Instagram, which Facebook bought in 2012 for a billion dollars
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-iphone-turns-10/