Steve Jobs and the Day the iPhone Was Born
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, on January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stepped onto the stage at Macworld and unveiled a device that would change how the world communicates. What looked like a flawless presentation was actually a high-wire act, with hidden risks, backup devices, and engineers bracing for disaster behind the scenes.
Our own Greg Hengler shares the story of the iPhone launch that reinvented the phone, powered Apple’s comeback, and helped create the modern app-driven world we now take for granted.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.9 | And we continue with Our American Stories. |
| 0:17.4 | And to search for the Al American Stories podcast, go to the I Heart Radio app or wherever |
| 0:23.0 | you get your podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | Up next, a story about an American product that was released not so long ago, one you might |
| 0:32.4 | be listening to this show on right now. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, this product, it changed the world. |
| 0:38.4 | It changed everything. |
| 0:40.4 | Let's take a listen. |
| 0:44.0 | On January 9, 2007, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, already a legendary pitchman, put on what |
| 0:52.8 | many considered the best business presentation in corporate history. |
| 0:57.8 | Here's technology commentator Charlie Brown. |
| 1:01.2 | Steve Jobs was a master at teasing new technology to people, and everyone turned up to Mac |
| 1:07.6 | well thinking they were seeing a new iPod or a new Mac. |
| 1:10.5 | He was showing them something vastly different or a new Mac, he was showing |
| 1:11.5 | them something vastly different, something new and something that was going to change the world, |
| 1:16.4 | and he did it like the master that he was. |
| 1:24.9 | This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years. |
| 1:30.3 | At the Mac World Conference in San Francisco, Jobs built up the narrative before he even mentioned a new product. |
| 1:37.3 | Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. |
| 1:47.0 | In 1984, we introduced the Macintosh. |
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