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title: "Which came first, Instagram or the iPhone?"
description: "Instagram vs the iPhone: the iPhone came first, by 3 years — 2007 against 2010. What happened in each case, and why the dates are often given differently."
url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/instagram-vs-iphone/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Which came first, Instagram or the iPhone?

**Which came first, Instagram or the iPhone?: the iPhone**

2007 — 3 years before Instagram

the iPhone came first, by 3 years. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.

## Side by side

|  | Instagram | the iPhone |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 2010 | 2007 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 2007-06-29 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. |

## Instagram

Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.

## 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, Instagram or the iPhone?

the iPhone, by 3 years — 2007 against 2010.

### When did Instagram start?

2010. The app launched on iOS.

### When did the iPhone start?

2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.

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## Sources

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