Which came first, Harry Potter or the iPhone?
Harry Potter came first, by 10 years. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.
Side by side
| Harry Potter | the iPhone | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1997 | 2007 |
| Date | 1997-06-26 | 2007-06-29 |
| Category | media | technology |
| What happened | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK. | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. |
Harry Potter
Bloomsbury published the first book in June 1997 with a print run of 500 copies, most of which went to libraries, after twelve other publishers had rejected the manuscript. The company's chairman gave the first chapter to his eight-year-old daughter, who demanded the rest. It came out the same year as Netflix was founded and a year before Google.
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, Harry Potter or the iPhone?
- Harry Potter, by 10 years — 1997 against 2007.
- When did Harry Potter start?
- 1997. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.
- When did the iPhone start?
- 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
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