国际英语资讯:iPhone: industrial design legend for 10 years_时事

国际英语资讯:iPhone: industrial design legend for 10 years

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12 -- When the iPhone was known to the world as a new product from Apple Inc., "smartphone" was hardly the term for a class of electronic devices.

That was 10 years ago, at the same time when Steve Jobs, then chief executive officer (CEO) of the U.S. technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, gave up its initial name as Apple Computer Inc.

For the previous 30 years, with Jobs as its co-founder, Apple had been the nameplate for personal computers.

With the launch of the iPhone, on Jan. 9, 2007, by Jobs, who died four years later at age 56, Apple has since turned into a consumer electronics company.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 12, at a special event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, the company's new headquarters campus which will later house the offices of thousands of employees, Tim Cook, the current CEO who replaced Jobs, rolled out the iPhone 8 as its latest smartphone and the iPhone X, literally the iPhone 10, as "one more thing."

While the iPhone 8 was expected as a sequel, the iPhone X was anticipated as a special 10th anniversary edition.

With tens of millions of iPhones now in use worldwide, the gadget is likely the most successful mobile device, and one of the most successful products in the information age.

From the iPhone's very beginning, Apple has been a designer, a developer and a seller, rather than a manufacturer, of the phone. It has been markedly designed in California, and physically made in China.