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iPhone announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo SF 2007. Despite strong beforehand knowledge of the announcement, Apple's stock (AAPL) opens at $86.45 that day and closes at $92.57 in the afternoon. The next day it closes at $97.
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The iphone.com domain is purchased by Apple from Michael Kovatch, the original owner since 1995. The purchase sum is undisclosed, but expected to be over $1M. http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/07/iphone-now-owned-by-apple/
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Steve Jobs announces at WWDC07 that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari WebKit engine. Third-parties would create "Web Apps" and users would access them via the internet.
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Original iPhone EDGE release at 4GB for $499 and 8GB for $599.
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Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) reported on his blog in a post titled "iPhone Independence Day" that he had successfully unlocked the iPhone features with jailbreaking. He published the software and offsets for others to use. http://nanocr.eu/2007/07/03/iphone-without-att/
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The first verfied unlocking method is released. It requires an $80 Turbo SIM adapter and tricks the iPhone into thinking its still on the AT&T network using non-AT&T SIM cards.
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Bug fixes.
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George Hotz, a 17-year old hacker from New Jersey, unlocks the iPhone after spending 500 hours of effort in conjunction with four other hackers worldwide. He blogs his method, which involves opening the iPhone and executing commands from a computer. The complexity keeps many away from unlocking.
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The 8GB iPhone recieves a price drop from $599 to $399.
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The 4GB iPhone model was discontinued due to widespread consumer concentration on the 8GB model. Stock was reduced at a discounted price of $299.
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"We have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store." - Steve Jobs http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
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The iPhoneDevTeam releases a relatively simple software SIM unlock to the world for free. AnySim and iUnlock Reloaded are GUI implimentations of this unlock method.
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anySIM, the gold standard of iPhone unlocking software, is released. It is a GUI front end to the iPhoneDevTeam's unlocking efforts.
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iPhone 1.1.1 is released along with the iPhone iTunes Store.
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For release in Februry, but delayed until March 6th.
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iPhone was officially launched in Europe in the United Kingdom (O2) and Germany (T-Mobile).
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Apple releases iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 that closes a security hole that allowed viewed TIFF images in Safari to execute arbitrary code. This breaks the TIFF-exploit jailbreak method.
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The 16GB iPhone is released in the US at $499.
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Steve Jobs announces availability of the iPhone SDK along with outling the forthcoming Firmware 1.2.0 (aka "iPhone 2.0") and enterprise support via Microsoft Exchange.
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Steve Jobs announces iPhone 3G during WWDC 2008.
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The iPhone 3G is released in $199 8GB (black) and $299 16GB (black, white) models.
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Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G was unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to the SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier.
