01/10/2017

Best Keynote Ever

How Steve Jobs' words changed the world forever

Ten years ago today, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs gave the most important speech of his career. And it changed everything.

“This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years.”

On this day 10 years ago, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs—jumping ahead of necessary Federal Communications Commission filings that would have stolen his thunder—unveiled the iPhone, a device so revolutionary that most phones sold in 2017 are inspired by the touch-based design Jobs introduced at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2007.

While there were rumblings of a phone announcement before the event, the details were vague, making the news a genuine surprise. Jobs, meanwhile, took advantage of the attention he had that day, explaining in simple terms where the company had come from and its goals for the product. Jobs described it as a “widescreen iPod with touch controls,” a “revolutionary mobile phone,” and a “breakthrough internet communicator.”

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