--- title: "Which came first, the iPhone or the United States?" description: "the iPhone vs the United States: the United States came first, by 231 years — 1776 against 2007. What happened in each case." url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/iphone-vs-united-states/ site: "At One Place" --- # Which came first, the iPhone or the United States? **Which came first, the iPhone or the United States?: the United States** 1776 — 231 years before the iPhone the United States came first, by 231 years. The Declaration of Independence was adopted. ## Side by side | | the iPhone | the United States | | --- | --- | --- | | Year | 2007 | 1776 | | Date | 2007-06-29 | 1776-07-04 | | Category | technology | country | | What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | The Declaration of Independence was adopted. | ## 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. ## the United States The date used here is the Declaration, 4 July 1776, which is the one people mean. Two others have equal claim: Britain recognised independence in 1783, and the Constitution took effect in 1789, so the current government is younger than the country by thirteen years. The United States is older as a state than Germany (1871), Italy (1861), Canada (1867) and modern Japan (1868). ## Common questions ### Which came first, the iPhone or the United States? the United States, by 231 years — 1776 against 2007. ### When did the iPhone start? 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. ### When did the United States start? 1776. The Declaration of Independence was adopted. ## Related pages - [sharks or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/sharks-vs-united-states/) - [Tyrannosaurus rex or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/t-rex-vs-united-states/) - [the Great Pyramid of Giza or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/great-pyramid-vs-united-states/) - [the Great Pyramid of Giza or the iPhone?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/great-pyramid-vs-iphone/) - [Germany or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/germany-vs-united-states/) - [Pakistan or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/pakistan-vs-united-states/) - [India or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/india-vs-united-states/) - [pizza or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/pizza-vs-united-states/) - [Nintendo or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/nintendo-vs-united-states/) - [the internet (ARPANET) or the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/arpanet-vs-united-states/) - [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/) ## Sources - Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (https://www.wikidata.org/) [CC0 1.0]