The iPhone: Apple’s smartest move celebrates its 10th anniversary

Today marks the 10th birthday of the iPhone, the device that redefined the mobile phone and helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world, writes Martyn Landi.

An audience member films video on their iPhone during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Apple has sold over 1bn iPhones in the past decade, having introduced 11 generations of the device.

It was on January 9, 2007, that late Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs went on stage at the company’s Macworld event to announce the tech giant was to reveal “an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator”, but rather than three separate products being revealed, one of the first truly smart phones was unveiled.

Since then, Apple has sold more than 1bn iPhones and has become one of the wealthiest companies ever.