June 27, 2007 is the beginning of a story that changed the world of phones and the day that wrote again the birth of Apple and also wrote the end of other companies, it is the day of the beginning of selling the iPhone to the public, this phone announced by Steve Jobs in a major conference Months before the start of the sale Specifically on January 9 of the same year, and although his ascent path was not paved with roses, he was always faced with fierce competition from several competitors such as BlackBerry, Microsoft, Palm and others, but he defeated them and Palm and BlackBerry ended trying to save themselves from bankruptcy, but soon another competitor appeared to him It is Android, but despite the latter’s spread, it did not affect the sales of the iPhone, which is still achieving record numbers, estimated to this day with more than a quarter of a billion phones, which means $150 billion in income for Apple, an amount that exceeds the budget of most Arab countries. Let us retrieve together some numbers from the history This device has the story of reaching 250,000,000 phones sold.

Figures and facts from the history of the iPhone:
- January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.
- June 27, 2007 began sales of the iPhone in the United States and later arrived in 5 other countries and was sold closed only.
- The first device achieved sales of 6.1 million units.
- July 11, 2008 I started selling the iPhone 3G in 22 countries.
- November 2008, the iPhone officially arrived in the Middle East, and the first country to receive it officially was the Arab Republic of Egypt.
- June 19, 2009 began selling the iPhone 3GS in 9 countries.
- June 24, 2010 began selling the iPhone 4 in 5 countries.
- October 17, 2011 began selling the iPhone 4S in 7 countries.
- Apple's stock price on June 29, 2007 is $122.
- Apple's stock price on June 29, 2012 is $576.
- The first iPhone was officially available for sale in only 7 countries.
- The iPhone 4S is now officially available for sale in 155 countries.
- June 2012 iPhone sales reached 250 million devices.
- Apple made $150 billion in revenue selling iPhones only in 5 years.
The iPhone sales history can be identified through the following image:

Total sales in the picture are 218 million as of March 2012 and Apple is estimated to have sold more than 32 million additional devices as of June 2012, a total of 250 previously mentioned in the article



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