Happy 14th birthday iPhone

First edition released June 29, 2007

The iPhone, the first widely accepted consumer smartphone that changed the world, turns 14 today, June, 29, 2021.

I was there, chronicling its birth, at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 29, when the phone first went on sale, interviewing the lucky ones who got their models before others.

Six p.m. was an odd time to launch a consumer product, but at the time, Appl…