Which came first, the iPhone or Windows?
Windows came first, by 22 years. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
Side by side
| the iPhone | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2007 | 1985 |
| Date | 2007-06-29 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
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.
Windows
Windows 1.0 shipped in November 1985, twenty-two months after the Macintosh, and it was not an operating system — it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS, and remained so until Windows NT in 1993 and the consumer transition with Windows XP in 2001. Version 1.0 could not even overlap windows: they tiled, because Apple's legal position on overlapping windows was unresolved.
Common questions
- Which came first, the iPhone or Windows?
- Windows, by 22 years — 1985 against 2007.
- When did the iPhone start?
- 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)