February 5, 2008: Six months after the first-gen iPhone goes on sale, Apple releases a brand new model with a whopping 16GB of storage.
“For some users, there’s never enough memory,” says Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vp of worldwide iPod and iPhone product advertising, in a press release. “Now people can enjoy even more of their music, photos and videos on the most revolutionary mobile phone and best Wi-Fi mobile device in the world.”
Apple will increase authentic iPhone storage to 16GB
When the first-gen iPhone went on sale, it initially got here in low-end 4GB and high-end 8GB choices. It grew to become obvious fairly instantly, nonetheless, that the 4GB possibility was too small. And that was previous to the opening of the App Retailer, which let folks fill their telephones with downloadable software program.
A 16GB iPhone mannequin was clearly wanted. And so Apple delivered one.
In early September 2007, Apple discontinued the 4GB iPhone and — in a controversial transfer — dropped the worth of the 8GB mannequin from $599 to $399. For a number of months, customers solely had one possibility. Then Apple determined to bolster gross sales by introducing the brand new 16GB possibility priced at $499.
Improve causes confusion for AT&T
What would people do with such lavish quantities of storage?Picture: Apple
After some confusion for AT&T (the one iPhone service on the time), it was additionally revealed that clients would be capable to improve from an 8GB to a 16GB iPhone with out having to signal a brand new contract. As a substitute, upgraders might decide up from the place their previous contracts left off.
On the time, Apple got here in second in U.S. cellular market share behind BlackBerry, with 28% to BlackBerry’s 41%. Worldwide, Apple ranked third, with 6.5%, lagging Nokia (an enormous 52.9%) and BlackBerry (11.4%). This was due, largely, to the iPhone being obtainable in just some international locations.
The 16GB iPhone storage possibility continued till 2016’s iPhone 7 (albeit because the smallest storage possibility).
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