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Apple’s iPhone Turns 5 – Watch Steve Jobs Unveil It

An iPod. A Phone. And an Internet communicator.

Do you remember that chant from Steve Jobs in 2007? Ever the showman, Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world touting features that would soon make it the envy of the smartphone world.

The iPhone, which hit the market five years ago today, transformed the way we communicate and in the process helped turn Apple into the most valuable company in the world, while destroying competitors in its wake.

Apple has sold more than 200 million iPhones, a business that generated $23 billion last quarter–more than the total quarterly revenue each of Microsoft and Google.

Watch Jobs pitch the iPhone five years ago as we talk about the iPhone’s legacy on the Digits show.

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