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Which came first, Harry Potter or the iPhone?

Which came first, Harry Potter or the iPhone?
Harry Potter
1997 — 10 years before the iPhone

Harry Potter came first, by 10 years. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.

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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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