Which came first, the iPhone or TikTok?
the iPhone came first, by 9 years. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
Side by side
| the iPhone | TikTok | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2007 | 2016 |
| Date | 2007-06-29 | — |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | ByteDance launched Douyin in China; TikTok followed abroad in 2017. |
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.
TikTok
The app launched in China as Douyin in September 2016 and internationally as TikTok in 2017. What made it global was the 2018 acquisition and merger of Musical.ly, a lip-sync app that had launched in 2014 and already had a large Western user base — so part of TikTok is two years older than TikTok. Douyin and TikTok remain separate apps on separate infrastructure.
Common questions
- Which came first, the iPhone or TikTok?
- the iPhone, by 9 years — 2007 against 2016.
- When did the iPhone start?
- 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
- When did TikTok start?
- 2016. ByteDance launched Douyin in China; TikTok followed abroad in 2017.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)
- Typical range compiled from manufacturer specifications — At One Place