The Long, Extraordinary Career of Steve Jobs

The iPhone
By 2007, having already transformed the personal-computing and music industries, Jobs had set his sights on cellular telecommunication. At that year's Macworld convention, he unveiled the iPhone, which, after it went on sale in June, quickly sold more than 6 million units, putting it on the same footing with products like the BlackBerry, which had been on the market for years. The phone features Internet connectivity, a user interface built around multitouch technology and a vast library of apps created by a virtual army of Apple devotees and developers.

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