Which came first, Amazon or the iPhone?
Which came first, Amazon or the iPhone?
Amazon
1994 — 13 years before the iPhone
Amazon came first, by 13 years. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
Side by side
| Amazon | the iPhone | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 2007 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 2007-06-29 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
the iPhone
Announced on 9 January 2007 and on sale from 29 June, the first iPhone had no app store, no copy and paste, no 3G and no video recording. The App Store arrived over a year later in July 2008. Android Inc. had been founded in 2003, four years before the iPhone, but the first Android phone shipped fifteen months after it.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or the iPhone?
- Amazon, by 13 years — 1994 against 2007.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did the iPhone start?
- 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
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