--- title: "Which came first, the iPhone or Tyrannosaurus rex?" description: "the iPhone vs Tyrannosaurus rex: Tyrannosaurus rex came first, by 68.002 million years — 68 million years ago against 2007. What happened in each case." url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/iphone-vs-t-rex/ site: "At One Place" --- # Which came first, the iPhone or Tyrannosaurus rex? **Which came first, the iPhone or Tyrannosaurus rex?: Tyrannosaurus rex** 68 million years ago — 68.002 million years before the iPhone Tyrannosaurus rex came first, by 68.002 million years. T. rex lived in the last two million years of the age of dinosaurs. ## Side by side | | the iPhone | Tyrannosaurus rex | | --- | --- | --- | | Year | 2007 | 68 million years ago | | Date | 2007-06-29 | — | | Category | technology | nature | | What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | T. rex lived in the last two million years of the age of dinosaurs. | ## 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. ## Tyrannosaurus rex Tyrannosaurus rex lived from about 68 to 66 million years ago, right at the end of the Cretaceous. Stegosaurus died out around 150 million years ago. That means T. rex is closer in time to us — 66 million years — than it is to Stegosaurus, by more than 20 million years. The two are routinely drawn in the same picture and never met. > Deep-time date, approximate to within a million years or so. ## Common questions ### Which came first, the iPhone or Tyrannosaurus rex? Tyrannosaurus rex, by 68.002 million years — 68 million years ago against 2007. ### When did the iPhone start? 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. ### When did Tyrannosaurus rex start? 68 million years ago. T. rex lived in the last two million years of the age of dinosaurs. ## Related pages - [sharks or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/sharks-vs-t-rex/) - [Tyrannosaurus rex or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/t-rex-vs-united-states/) - [the Great Pyramid of Giza or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/great-pyramid-vs-t-rex/) - [the Great Pyramid of Giza or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/great-pyramid-vs-iphone/) - [pizza or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/pizza-vs-t-rex/) - [Nintendo or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/nintendo-vs-t-rex/) - [the internet (ARPANET) or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/arpanet-vs-t-rex/) - [the internet (ARPANET) or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/arpanet-vs-iphone/) - [email or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/email-vs-iphone/) - [Amazon or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/amazon-vs-iphone/) - [Google or Tyrannosaurus rex?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/google-vs-t-rex/) - [Google or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/google-vs-iphone/) ## Sources - Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (https://www.wikidata.org/) [CC0 1.0] - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Smithsonian Institution (https://naturalhistory.si.edu/)