{"id":4419,"date":"2015-01-09T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:58:53","slug":"happy-eight-birthday-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/happy-eight-birthday-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Eight Birthday, iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, eight years ago, I was sitting in the media area around row 15 @ Moscone Center when Steve Jobs announced iPhone. I was working for an IT company in Florida, blogging in my spare time and putting all of the money I earned blogging toward hosting Macworld events in San Francisco once a year. My involvement in that community kick-started the career I have today through networking and real-world training. Macworld 2007 is my favorite of the entire run of events I attended from 2004-2012 followed closely by SXSW 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to share a few photos to mark this occasion and it\u2019s no denying the huge impact Apple and iPhone had on my life. Thanks Steve and Co. for everything.<\/p>\n

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My annual city tour of San Francisco. Note this was also the first big trip Laura and I took together exactly 15 months before we moved to San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Our annual trip to Cupertino and the Apple Company Store<\/p>\n

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The annual pre-keynote meetup where newcomers can meet at a central location and we I give everyone coffee and doughnuts and we head over to the keynote<\/p>\n

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I think was was my 2nd annual DailyTechTalk Macworld party. I rented out Swig bar in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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On behalf of the now-defunct Spymac, I got to meet Steve Wozniak for the first time.<\/p>\n

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This was also the year the filmmakers behind Mac Heads came to SF and filmed my events and an interview with me for a documentary that still airs sometimes late at night on CNBC.<\/p>\n

\"Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, we were all introduced to iPhone.<\/p>\n

\"Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

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I got to meet Steve right after the keynote. His wife was there among other friends, family and colleagues.<\/p>\n

\"Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

I love this photo. Although it\u2019s blurry, the old school flip-camera phone the guy was using to snap a photo of a device that was quite literally, the future.<\/p>\n

Six months later, I lined up overnight (3rd in line) in Florida to be one of the first to buy iPhone. Looking back, I\u2019m happy that I was there for its introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, eight years ago, I was sitting in the media area around row 15 @ Moscone Center when…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:09:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"41c6a879-f6b4-4ca8-bc1f-b692f1929fec","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:09:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQcaoefa0TKi8H7aS8ZKf7A","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-19h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7928,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/linked-ten-years-ago-apple-said-goodbye-to-macworld-but-set-the-stage-for-the-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":4419,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “Ten Years Ago, Apple Said Goodbye to Macworld but Set the Stage for the Future”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Ten Years Ago, Apple Said Goodbye to Macworld but Set the Stage for the Future \u2013 MacStories: Apple leaving Macworld Expo was the beginning of the end. 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