Hi Marques !! Those "lucky you" stickers were introduced in apple stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iphone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too. That's why the lucky you sticker is all over the box, upside down sometimes, on the back, multiple stickers on the box sometimes, because it was put on at the store, not at the factory.
I worked at Apple in 2007 at a retail store in Newport Beach, CA. The Lucky You stickers were put on every item that we sold during the 2007 Holiday Season. We literally slapped them on everything we sold from Black Friday through Christmas.The red sticker matching our holiday red t-shirts! Also, the phones were to be activated by the customers AT HOME on their own! When we launched the iPhone 3G a year later, WE had to activate all of the phones in the store and it was a HUGE headache. I remember our store only sold 8 phones in our first night because of activation issues. We were also using Windows Mobile handheld devices then... XD
I worked the original iPhone launch and this was a sticker commonly used back then during the holiday season. We wore red shirts as well. I remember being bored and putting those stickers on co-workers or our lanyards. I also remember someone putting one on the break room toilet seat which pissed management off.
I worked before at a company where I could check YT vloggers revenue. With 7.8M views, I would say he definitely had ROI on this and earned tripple quadruple of what he shelled out.
The “Lucky you” sticker was put on products after payment in _some_ Apple Stores during holidays, when stores were overcrowded and it was easier to steal stuff - so the security guys could very quickly see if you actually did pay for the product you have in your bag.
I worked at Apple retail when the iPhone launched. I believe the "Lucky you" sticker had something to do with the holidays. During the holidays Apple stores would set up an express checkout at the front of the store, and would sell commonly gifted things like iPods and some accessories. These lucky you stickers were a kind of proof of purchase that would get slapped onto the purchased item so the customer could keep browsing through the store with the item in hand.
True story! I worked in the NYC Apple store between 2006 and 2011. I strictly monitored all the launch of this phone, a real game changer for those times. Those stickers were sent to us by Apple and we used to apply them on Christmas gifts. Once I was having sex with one of my Geniouses and, not having a condom, I covered my penis with these stickers. Thanks God I am not a father, so they work pretty well
I worked there just at launch, and I remember this being a pickup sticker. Normally we used them to attach the receipt to the box with the customer’s name on it.
The “Lucky You.” sticker was put on the iPhone when it was bought for full price as a holiday gift from an Apple retail store, vs the phones that were subsidized when sold with activation. It signaled to the folks working at the front door that the device had been sold and the person leaving wasn’t stealing it. I worked there when these were selling and we would put the stickers on all kinds of things.
I remember getting the lucky you stickers outside of holidays as well, back in the early 10s in downtown Portland, OR. Definitely was for theft prevention.
I worked there as well, you are correct about the sticker being a "proof of purchase" of sorts, but we never did activations or subsidization until iPhone 3. By then we had the blue "Thank You" stickers instead of the red "Lucky You".
I remember buying an iPhone 3GS and shipping it all the way back to South Africa, jailbreaking it so I could activate it with a foreign sim card, accidentally updating the OS, and then having to wait *months* before the next jailbreak version came out and I could use the phone. Wild times. Thanks for biting the bullet, Marques! Fun video 🤘🏼
Being Norweeigan, I had to get one pre jailbroken too. Jailbreaking was a big thing then. I still think fondly of the pineapple bootup logo one of the jailbreaks provided.
Similar story here. Me and my brother bought 3 iPhones while on holiday in the US in November 2007. Bought them back to Australia and jailbroke them to work locally. It was like being a rockstar having that phone before they were sold locally. Everyone wanted to try it out, look at it, and was amazed by it compared to every other phone at the time.
I worked at Apple when the iPhone came out. The "Lucky You" stickers were put on boxes when you checked out using the handheld "EasyPay" devices the employees carried around. During the holiday season there was an "Express" section set up along one side of our store for quick checkout. Since the iPhone was activated at home back then, you just could go buy one. We'd put the stickers on the boxes but not everyone put them on every box. This video is bringing back crazy memories!
I was working at the Apple Store when the OG iPhone came out. The “Lucky You” sticker was a holiday season thing that was added for fun around the same time we all received our red T-shirts with random products on them. I actually had one on my Apple name tag that was the plastic necklace with business cards on the back. Good times.
The "Lucky you" sticker was a special sticker introduced in Apple Stores during the Christmas season of 2007. Customers who wanted to gift the iPhone to someone would receive the sticker to attach to the boxed iPhone as a gift symbol, adding to the seasonal theme.
The lucky you sticker was a way for employees to see if an item was paid for. There was also a blue one after that for a short while. You would buy let’s say an accessory off the sales wall and we’d place a sticker on it if your receipt was emailed to you.
Hi Marques! I worked at Apple Retail at the time. The sticker was placed on all Apple products during certain times of the year. We had rolls and rolls of the stickers. This was during the holidays for sure. That specialist put it on upside (lazily). Super odd that no articles knew this!
To set the mood for 2007: Crocs, Highschool Musical, L33t speak, Guitar hero, Happy feet, BluRay, I like turtles kid, Simpsons movie, Keyboard cat, Dear Sister SNL skit, DS came out, Alvin, Oldschool Runescape, Bee Movie, Pokemon gen 4, Ratatouille, Charlie bit my finger, Drama gopher meme, Leave Brittany alone, Chocolate rain, What what in the butt.
I had the first iPhone and I remember being really sad that almost every generation after that you’d get less in the box. Having the dock was such a bonus.
i never realised how little we get in the boxes now until this video. like, i knew it. but there’s so much in this first one!! how are we paying more but getting less 😭 (rhetorical)
Because then it was new thing, right now everybody has dozen of cables, earbuds and chargers already, we do not need that shit anymore. And who the hell would need a dock in the "data in the cloud" era 😅
Actually, the original SIM size was a full credit-card size. My father used a Motorola MicroTac in the 90s and I remember him inserting it like a prepaid card on a telephone booth. The SIM card we knew and loved throughout the 2000s and early 2010s was officially called a "mini-SIM".
Yup, I remember back when I was a kid living in Mexico in the late 90s, people use to carry those huge sim cards so they could use the telephone booths… damn, I didn’t know I had this memory until now
@@1karanhasija the cost of the silicon wafer. About $3 per inch (25.4 millimeters). The smaller the chip the lower the cost. While the SIM cards were much smaller than a 1 inch square, if we use that $3 bench mark and apply it to the 16,000,000 sold - that's a $48 million in cost.
What he didn't mention is: He bought those other $50-60k iPhones as well, and by opening up the $40k one on camera, he's made the other ones even more valuable
They weren't worth that because they were already opened and used so he paid significantly less for those phones. Dont you listen or understand how things with value work? I guess not. N
Hi Marques! Sharing a story about the original iPhone. My dad bought one at launch and got a hip mounted leather case for it. After three years, we got badly stuck in a flooded mud bog. Trying to get the Suburban free, my dad lost his iPhone case and all. We didn't know it until we got home. Went back, couldn't find it. The bog froze over with solid ice for about 2 months. We went back in the spring, and found the iPhone in an ice+mud block. He took it home, cleaned it thoroughly, and let it sit out in the sun for a few days. Then, he tried to turn it on. Dead. Let it charge, then, IT TURNED ON. And best of all, everything worked perfectly! I've never shared the story before because I thought no one would believe it. Will never forget that phone. Thanks for the memories.
Well they sure weren't free. But there wasn't that much of a hype around the product, that the price of it was actually tied to it's development, production and retail cost. So the devices were cheaper and they included more accessories for the money you paid them.
It's underwhelming when you finally get the thing you want. The wanting in life can sometimes be more satisfying than the having. Tks for taking the leap, sharing and letting us follow along.
Very true. I find that every time I get something I want I’m instantly ready and looking for the next thing. But I used to be a pill addict years ago so I’m not sure if that’s just my addictive personality or what lol.
Once you pop you just cant stop. And how chould you, given that nothing satisfies or indeed ever can satisfy the will, which is always striving and thus sufferin as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. But there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or ends to suffering, and for our constant strunggle for more ihpones.
True. There is eternity in man's heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11), which the famous mathematician Blaise Pascal called, "God-shaped vacuum." The video "What is the Meaning of Life?" by Bibles for America does a good job in explaining this.
I wanted to spend a month traveling in the Caribbean for years... Then I finally got a chance to do some IT work for a company that had a location in the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, and in Barbados. I spent 2 months there and everyday felt like a dream!😁
the reason why it didn't turn on with the first brick is because the battery had an undervoltage / deep discharge from slowly losing energy over the many years it was sitting in the box. some bricks don't detect the device when the battery voltage is under a certain level, so they won't charge it. so if you accidentally store your phone with an empty battery and it doesn't charge after a while, a different brick is always worth a try. sorry for my bad english and regards from switzerland
@@PocketsRidesI always think the same thing lol the fact there’s commas and periods alone makes them better at English than a ton of the (native English speaking) students in the country.
Your grammar and syntax is better than most Americans. Nothing to be sorry about. You seem to be on a very high level of grammar and vocabulary while most people in the US, now, can't pass a 2nd grade reading exam.
@@ExcludedShadow To be fair apostrophes and often times commas are completely unnecessary if you just want to bring your point across. I would argue it doesnt even help readability so I just dont care at all to do the extra work. I also use things like ur, y and things like that because I expect everyone to know what it means. Doesnt mean my english is better or worse just because I am not writing "correct" english.
@@mysticaldevotion863 it helps readability a ton, especially if someone doesn’t know how long a sentence should be. I give up trying to read some comments. It makes my brain hurt trying to dissect an essay that’s essentially just one ginormous run on sentence haha I stopped using ur, y, k, after we no longer had to click one button 3+ times to finally get the one letter you wanted. Plus there’s no character limit on most platforms, other than X but who uses that anyways. That being said I understand where you’re coming from.
Well, THIS is the type of stuff that’s super fun to see every now and then, that earns an instant sub from me. I LOVE old Apple tech let alone an iPhone 2G.
Love this mate, i remember buying this phone back in the day, I Was living in London and was a broke chef. I saved up for months just to be able to afford one.
12:25 The iPhone used to be shipped with a dock and a lot of other accessories because back then Apple still had to make an effort to convince people to buy their products. Now they don't even add a power brick 😅
@@flintstone1409 don't know about that. I mean, most customers would still opt for a brick. So if it's all about customer demands, Apple could have offered to give out 10$ vouchers to people who forgo the brick.
@@flintstone1409 yep I remember when everyone always complained about the useless barrage of cables they’d get in the box and accumulate a drawer full of useless chargers. How times change
According to an AppleInsider reader who worked in Apple retail when the company launched the first iPhone, the "Lucky You" stickers were available during the holidays if customers chose a gift box. "We used to have pre-cut and folded boxes that fit the products precisely and the stickers to seal them," they said.
I worked in a third-party mobile phone retail store in the United Kingdom when these were released, and I remember sheets of those lucky you stickers and applying them to the first batch of pre orders that arrived. Although, to be honest, most shops just put the sheets of stickers in the bin. I only applied them to a few myself, I mean, like 2 or 3, and then was told to stop as it was taking time.
Imagine how big of a cunt your supervisor must have been to say that a 4 second procedure was "taking time". Jeez, chill, this person just sold their right kidney, I'm just trying to cheer them up...
Hi Marques, those “lucky you” stickers were introduced in Apple Stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iPhone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too.
I'm not even an Apple guy, but I can appreciate the gigantic impact the iPhone had on the world. So seeing a legit unboxed original is so cool. Imagine what those will be worth in the future.
Never had the original iPhone, but had a company provided iPhone 3G in 2008, and a 3GS in 2009 - I thought they were the shizzle after using Blackberry's crap for years - then I left that employer and went to Android. Since then & many Android phones later I'm back with an iPhone employer so have had the same lousy iPhone 11 for over 3 years now - no doubt they will replace it shortly - but personally use a Pixel 6 - because iOS is for luddites and iPhone hardware is balls (for the money they ask anyway)
It's insane to spend $40,000 on an old collectible phone. But boy, you know, there's no better joy than to spend your money on toys that you've always wanted. This was incredible to watch man, thank you!
and of course...adsense would pay at least some of the money he spent, well it's worth from the excitement stand point as gadget enthusiasts and you bought that to show off to million people too, so I'd say I'd be just happy to do what marques did if I get the chance with the same amount of platform he has
it is kind of funny when he talks about it like its not just back within 10 minutes of the video being released, to youtubers, 40 000 is just another payment, but hey, I guess they have to act relatable for the audience
How the f do people find this “incredible to watch”!? Maybe if it was like 100 years ago, sure, would be kinda cool to see, like a time capsule. That’s why time capsules are often sealed for a good 100 years because it takes that long for something to be interesting again. Otherwise, 40k on a sealed piece of crap device from only 15 years ago? Who actually gives a crap!? This was actually pointless. Would have been smarter for him to actually build a real time capsule with his logo engraved on it, filled it will a bunch of technology and buried it.
Brings back memories. I have two original iPhones. Working at Apple at the time they announced we'd all get one months after launch. However, me and some co-workers decided we couldn't wait and purchased our own. Our spouses ended up with the gift phones. One thing I remember clearly was that the phone really needed a rubber case as it would constantly want to launch out of my hand when I'd bring it out of my pocket due to how smooth it was and rounded.
the original sim card size actually was like a credit card. worked with the first mobile phones back in the 90s. I remember we had motorola's phone here. With the newer models you had to take the smaller, this iphone's sim card size cards later on :D
Exactly! I had an Ericsson flip that used to take the entire credit card sized SIM. This iPhone sized SIM was called the mini SIM, then came micro and then nano now
Yeah that was another thing that Apple implemented into phones and that it is now common. The size of the SIM cards. There was no such thing as micro or mini SIM cards before the iPhone.
@@rodrigojds You are wrong, the mini SIM has been used since the late 90's. Maybe you mean the micro SIM which was used on iPhone 4, and it was the first or one of the first phones to use that SIM card format.
@@loldoctor actually i was one of the first people in buy a laser pointer in the 90s. Got one at Radio Shack for I think $120. At the time no one had seen one before except perhaps in movie. It was incredible.
I remember when this thing came out and everybody was talking about it as it was a giant leap in phone technology for he time. I had just bought about 3 months before this came out, the LG phone with a analog tv receiver built in with the telescoping antenna that pulled out from the top. So when this came out it made that phone literally look like a toy and a stupid novelty compared to this future looking computer for your hands. Top of the line phones at that time i think were about $250-$300..... so when this first IPhone had a price of $700+ it was a shocker for everybody for the price along with the new era of technology unfolding in front of us.
@@smooth_ops2942 bullshit. top of the line phones were 900+++ or even 2000 +++= Nokia Communicator or Nokia Titanium series etc. - and of course Palm phones - iPhone was right in the middle.
The accessories we used to get are insane. Some androids came with extra batteries, ear buds, screen protectors and cases. Now we don’t even get the damn charger. I wonder what they’ll take out next. Hell, the box will probably just come with a phone voucher that you will have to redeem in store.
God bless, its so much more environment friendly and economical to not include stuff people might not actually need. In todays age people might have 20 of the same chargers at home. The ear buds often dont get used extra batteries arent necessary..... I have seen a video on this and there are different reasons for it other then the sellers being cheap. Not 100% sure but I think the EU helped with this and its an incredibly good thing for everyone. Everyone that complains about this either has no clue why they are complaining or they are just so lazy to not buy something else they might need. Accessories were never "free".... their price just got put onto the product itself.
@@mysticaldevotion863 I think your entire comment is backwards and incorrect and this is not an arguable statement. Buy a $1300 MacBook, or even just the cheapest Mac they make, they don't leave a way to power it out. They always include that because they MUST. Your whole EU thing is complete BS and everyone on the planet knows it. The EU did nothing here. Apple made the conscious decision to remove chargers and now some devices don't even come with a cable. In a business setting, if I was on a job and had to have an emergency device replacement and I couldn't even use it because I don't have a power brick or even a $.39 cable, I'd send it back and sue for lost revenue.
iPhones used to be a whole experience to unbox. The dock, the iconic white headphones, the microfibre cloth. It’s all so clearly aimed at creating a luxury experience that really differentiated Apple in the market and helped propel them to where they are today. The iPhone was such a massive achievement that the first Android device had to be completely scrapped because it wouldn’t have come close to what Apple just released. Such a monumental milestone in the tech industry! Thanks for this great trip down memory lane, Marques!
@@ihavenoidea2167 what are you talking about... When the iPhone came out it changed everything. Other touch screen phones didn't even come close. It's true.
@@ihavenoidea2167 I was 16 in 2007 and only a few of us had them at school. Comparing that to the regular flip phones or even early smartphones of the day was a massive difference, not only because of the cost, but the functionality of having every device wrapped into one package. It was a watershed moment in technological advancement and changed the landscape of communication forever.
@@ihavenoidea2167 originally android had a physical keyboard kinda like blackberry but they never released that phone and went with a full touchscreen after iphone dropped
@@r033cx I'm pretty sure I used the G1 android phone(which had a full sized keyboard that you had to slide the screen up to reveal) for quite some time all those years ago and I loved it, still wish there were phones with physical keyboard, not sure what phone you meant that they supposedly didn't release
The only thing that was missing for me to be happy for the rest of my life was to see the iPhone working. I hope you can make it work and upload a video testing the apps, camera, and speakers. Awesome video!!!!!
I remember driving from Ontario Canada to Buffalo US to buy the first iPhone during the first week of the launch. It was an exciting drive and it took weeks (or months) until the first unlock method was available so I could use it in Canada. I still have my first iPhone in brand new condition (although it's not sealed anymore). The good old days ...
That was a nice time capsule. Hard to believe its been 16 years.. You really stood out of the crowd back then if you had an Iphone. I remember so many people asking me, "Is that an Iphone!?!"
The original iPhone was sold for $499 in 2007. $500 worth of Apple stock purchased in 2007 would be worth $23,000 today. It would have been a better investment to stockpile sealed iPhones.
Absolutely! This phone really started it all. I was a sophomore in high school and worked everyday after school to save money to buy this phone when it was released. I’ve always been a tech guy and it really caught my attention. I think I was the first person at my school to have one and everyone wanted to mess with it lol. It felt so cool to hold it the first time and to text people from it. Those were the days! Tech has been rocking and rolling since then at an incredibly fast pace!
I remember being like 14 seeing my sister's BF showing off the iphone at Christmas and everyone in my family was mind blown. Never could have guessed that format would become so ubiquitous. Got my first smart phone in 2010, Galaxy S1 and the world has never been the same haha
I remember just having bought a shiny new iPod and a premium Nokia flip phone when Apple dropped the bomb that they were going to combine everything in a single device. (We never got the 1st gen iPhone here in Sweden though, so I had some time enjoying my other devices..)
Those “lucky you” stickers were introduced in Apple Stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iPhone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too.
The Dock was excellent. Remember one of the primary uses of iPhone, was iPod. You'd have the dock on your desk, connected to awesome speakers, and you'd get home and sit it in the dock, iTunes would sync and you could control media from the screen and see the time when pressing home or sleep/wake. The dock has grills in the bottom which pass audio though for the mic and speaker, both on the base of the phone. So you could use it as a speaker phone, sitting in the dock. However the original speaker was super quiet. Even the ringtone was hard to hear, and alarms hard to hear, vs later models.
There is a chance that the original power brick didn't work due to capacitor leakage inside of the power supply of the brick. That tends to happen a lot on old electronics.
I worked for Apple retail from 2007 to 2012, and that Christmas we’d put those lucky you stickers on pretty much every interaction with a customer. We had special edition red shirts (which I’ve still got!) and we had literally REELS of those stickers. I was working Christmas 2007 at Regent Street in London and in the iPod pen, which was literally a table with a stack of Nanos and Classics with a crowd of people buying them on our portable registers (which were actually called iPads, fun fact). Every one of those iPods had a lucky you sticker on. A lot of staff also ended up with stickers on them at some point.
You unboxed a time capsule. The moment you cut open the wrap, all old memories of mine came back. All the things I went thru, all the people I lived with, in the year 2007. I was excited yet panicked not only for the phone, but also for the memories sealed in the year 2007.
As someone that purchased 19 of these through our company back in 07” then left to open & set them all up for all of our employees, “an absolute headache btw” I can tell you that everything in your unboxing seems to be the same as it was back then. I vividly remember the feeling of unwrapping the plastic the first clicks of the buttons, & pushing the handset into their docks. Over time the dock began to feel like it was making less of a connection when placing it on. I remember our employees when they came into work on Monday morning & they all had a new iPhone sitting on docks on their desks. We didn’t get any units with the stickers, It may have been only in the U.S
You realize he's been big for a long time now right? He showed us Apollo almost 6+ years ago and has a $100k+ robot arm for B reel footage. Didn't take 14 years for him to be able to blow $40k lol
I had one right before I went off to college. They would get so warm after a little while of talking and it was actually quite uncomfortable to use. I remember calling my dad on it this one time and both my ear and hand were so warm that the phone either shut off or I had to hang up. Then the 3G came out and I changed to that and I remember thinking that the plastic back felt better. Wow, time flies, technology certain does. I feel so ancient and I’m only in my early 30s 😂
Great video Marques, I remember the sheer excitement I got when I got to do the very same unboxing for Christmas 2007. This video gave me major nostalgia vibes and a wonderful trip back to simpler times in my life. It's funny how a small brick of metal can give you such nice memories.
Collectors are weird, imagine paying thousands upoun thousands in a box because that's what they're paying for, they'll keep it in a box forever without ever enjoying the product if we stop to think this is peak nonsense.
This reminds me so much of my receiving one from my wife for Christmas in 2007. An incredible unboxing experience. Nobody else that I knew had one, so it was quite a feeling.
@@JustinLesamiz Yes it is, maybe you should stop being self-conscious and feel better about yourself. Having an ego is one thing but occasionally feeling a positive difference in comparison with others is completely normal and good on your mental health.
I remember getting this phone on launch day. I also remember being hassled by so many people wanting to see it. I never let it go from my hands. People were literally jealous of my phone. Everyday for like a month someone would ask me about it when they seen me using it. That iPhone was a chick magnet for real!
funny thing i was expecting it to look terrible and old, but it still looks high quality and like you could use it today, and like it, as a small retro phone in a era of giant phones. build quality is excellent.
The Lucky You sticker was for pre-orders (Pre-Purchased/PAID FOR) through Singular/AT&T or Apple. I spent my earlier tech years in college buying first gen iPhones and Jailbreaking them for use on other carriers and reselling them. I only saw it on a few boxes when buying them back in the day. Regular over the counter purchases did not have these stickers.
Nothing compared to Apple packaging. It was top notch. I have a “lucky you” sticker but I don’t remember what it was about. It’s crazy everything that came with the original iPhone and all they’ve reduced over the years.
The Lucky You sticker is what the Apple Store employees would put on the item so you could walkout of the store without being stopped. They later changed to “Thank You” stickers. I also believe that the red ones were for the holiday period when the branding was red during that time.
I would never spend $40k on something like this, but I love you did because it was so interesting to watch you open that. I had a gen 1 or 2 iphone (can't remember exactly), but it had that microfiber and I remember how clever I thought the box and packaging was. How the auction house packaged it was also very interesting.
@@JinnyTvv its nto that he is rich he wants to make a video of himself bragging about his purchase. I don't know how much he will make on this video but on most of the video the products he reviews are few so paying once in a while is not a big deal for him.
The original SIM card size was the same as a credit card (and also partly why even modern SIM cards, until fairly recently, all came on a credit card sized piece of plastic). In the iPhone, that's a mini-SIM. My aunt had a phone with the credit card sized SIM; I remember playing with it and blocking the PIN, seeing "Enter PUK code" for the very first time. Wasn't the last.
Ok just posted the same info about the original being like a credit card 😅 scrolled a bit more to find a similar comment because I was surprised there wasn't one upvoted at the top! For me, seeing the original size was in a friend of my mom's phone that had a brick of a phone with a one row screen and an antenna even longer than the actual Phone that would fold on the side.
Watching a legitimate unboxing video of the original iPhone is a crazy and incredible experience. Thank you for the amazing content you provide as always!😁😇
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I got one of these used on ebay 3 months after launch for $250. It was a birthday gift for my wife. It was used but basically looked brand new besides one small dent in the back of the phone. It didn't have texting available until an update a month later which is crazy to think about now. My wife loved the phone and I can say to this day she was a pioneer.
Now I officially feel ‘old’… for having bought one myself in SF in 2007 a few days after the launch. I remember exactly what it felt like to purchase, unpack and activate it back then. It was such a superior feel to any device before… Thanks for that! 😅 🙏🏻
I was a little later, with a 3GS. Two things sold me on it: How a business colleague of mine used either the OG or 3G -- I don't remember which -- with cell tower triangulation (it didn't have GPS), to navigate on a digital map, in real time, from a _phone._ And, a friend who had the 3G, and could hit a self-hosted web server and stream MP3s over the cell network. That stuff was mind-blowing at the time. It just flipped the table over, in terms of how powerful a mobile device could be. My work Blackberry could technically browse a web page... and was sometimes worth the trouble of doing it. There was no comparison between them.
I remember the black cloth because my first gen iPod touch also came with one. Most of the packaging actually is super similar to the iPod touch except it didn’t come with the full dock. Instead it came with a tiny plastic stand and a dock adapter. Still have all of those original pieces in the box too 😅
I know apple wouldn’t do it, but for the 20th anniversary of the iPhone they should make a I phone 1. Just looks like a iPhone one, maybe a bit larger and would have the general stats of your normal iPhone.
Fantastic video - took me all the way back to 2007 when I got mine. I was actually living in the UK at the time, and managed to purchase one off eBay on Friday July 6th, just one week after its US launch (it cost £549.99 plus delivery). The problem then of course was that they were all locked to AT&T. I had to wait until Monday September 3rd to order a software unlock, which bizarrely came out of Australia. That cost me 60 Australian dollars. It wasn't for another week or so before the people behind the software unlock actually got it working properly, and finally was able to put my UK SIM into an unlocked iPhone and start using it on Wednesday September 12th. It was fun going back through all the emails!
@danielngongang9419 yep. I remember working for att when these came out. People would he calling in to get them unlocked and we told them we couldn't. They would throw a hissy fit.
I'm not a big Apple person. I don't own any Apple devices. But at the same time, watching this video is like watching a slice of history. It's amazing.
I was working in an Apple Store when the first iPhone was being sold. The “Lucky You ” was a sticker they had for Specialists to put on new products when we sold them. I think I still have a few in my Apple memorabilia box.
I remember selling these at an AT&T corporate store in Orange County CA. Someone said this was 500$ but it was not. This was back in the days of the 2 year commitment. Iphones in general were exclusive to ATT for like 4 or 5 years and the 2 year upgrade or new activation price was 199$ and you would pay the tax on the full retail amount of the phone which I believe was 600$
I worked for AT&T when this was released and wanted one really badly. I had to wait for 6 months after they came out before I could get one. All AT&T employees were restricted from getting one ourselves because how high demand they were.
It’s funny, the difference in the unboxing experience has seriously deteriorated over time. The phones have got better and better, but the unboxing is so much worse ! Imagine buying an iPhone today with headphones, charging brick etc now you don’t even get stickers!
I love that this video exists, how we can all agree about the absurdity of buying this at such a ridiculous price (only to "destroy" it within seconds) and yet it all makes sense when you watch the video. Thanks for having an incredible channel ❤️🖤
@@JustinLesamizit's not pure waste because it's a business expense for a video production, which then comes with a whole slew of value propositions. Also, the dude has money, so if he wants to spend that kind of money on something like this and he doesn't regret it, then it's not a waste. Unless you didn't mean that it was a waste of money and rather meant that it is a waste of an item that is in low supply. In which case I'd just say that the item itself doesn't really have intrinsic value anyway, so I'm not sure that you can really waste it. Whatever value it had was paid for, and at that point anything that happens isn't a waste, otherwise it wouldn't have sold.
@@MattMcConaha 💯 if anything this is a good thing, because the process is well documented. If its unopened forever, its just that, theres no point to the box really🤷♂️
Might be the nostalgia talking but I love the look of this phone and that stand. There's something super nice about the simplicity of the device. I love having the dock with a headphone jack so you can hook it up to a bedside speaker or something
Hi Marques !! Those "lucky you" stickers were introduced in apple stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iphone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too. That's why the lucky you sticker is all over the box, upside down sometimes, on the back, multiple stickers on the box sometimes, because it was put on at the store, not at the factory.
Somone pin this :D
Pin this
This seems legit!
Thank you!
Thank you 🙏
I worked at Apple in 2007 at a retail store in Newport Beach, CA. The Lucky You stickers were put on every item that we sold during the 2007 Holiday Season. We literally slapped them on everything we sold from Black Friday through Christmas.The red sticker matching our holiday red t-shirts! Also, the phones were to be activated by the customers AT HOME on their own! When we launched the iPhone 3G a year later, WE had to activate all of the phones in the store and it was a HUGE headache. I remember our store only sold 8 phones in our first night because of activation issues. We were also using Windows Mobile handheld devices then... XD
how much was the retail on an original iphone? and did employees get a discount on the phone ?
@@AlexCastro1 4GB iPhone was $500 and the 8GB iPhone was $600 with a 2 year contract.
Hey, just out of curiosity. What do you do for a living now? Do you miss working for apple?
Super interesting!
No t that appealing of a story as we wanted is it? But at least we know the truth
I worked the original iPhone launch and this was a sticker commonly used back then during the holiday season. We wore red shirts as well. I remember being bored and putting those stickers on co-workers or our lanyards. I also remember someone putting one on the break room toilet seat which pissed management off.
legend🤣
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pin it marques
Neat!
Pin it
When he says “I hope I don’t regret this”, he means “I hope this video makes more than 40k”
Bro I thought I was the only one
Most likely will though
I worked before at a company where I could check YT vloggers revenue. With 7.8M views, I would say he definitely had ROI on this and earned tripple quadruple of what he shelled out.
@@vintotschannel4616 lmao we all in his pockets when do our get this fatttt🤣😌
You calculate he makes $15,000-20,000 per million views 🤔 Have some doubts about that lol
The “Lucky you” sticker was put on products after payment in _some_ Apple Stores during holidays, when stores were overcrowded and it was easier to steal stuff - so the security guys could very quickly see if you actually did pay for the product you have in your bag.
P.s. in different stores there were different stickers of different colour and different text
Red was very much the norm for Holidays though.
Plot twist...What if you removed the sticker from something you bought earlier and brought it back to steal something...
@@indiekiduk that's definitely a fake one, sorry mate
@@hborrego in US - yes, however I.e. in Europe there were blue and green stickers
I worked at Apple retail when the iPhone launched. I believe the "Lucky you" sticker had something to do with the holidays. During the holidays Apple stores would set up an express checkout at the front of the store, and would sell commonly gifted things like iPods and some accessories. These lucky you stickers were a kind of proof of purchase that would get slapped onto the purchased item so the customer could keep browsing through the store with the item in hand.
Can confirm. Simple proof of purchase. Worked at apple from 2008-2014
Your explanation sounds legit 😮
True story! I worked in the NYC Apple store between 2006 and 2011. I strictly monitored all the launch of this phone, a real game changer for those times. Those stickers were sent to us by Apple and we used to apply them on Christmas gifts. Once I was having sex with one of my Geniouses and, not having a condom, I covered my penis with these stickers. Thanks God I am not a father, so they work pretty well
I worked there just at launch, and I remember this being a pickup sticker. Normally we used them to attach the receipt to the box with the customer’s name on it.
@@MeenBack tmi
The “Lucky You.” sticker was put on the iPhone when it was bought for full price as a holiday gift from an Apple retail store, vs the phones that were subsidized when sold with activation. It signaled to the folks working at the front door that the device had been sold and the person leaving wasn’t stealing it. I worked there when these were selling and we would put the stickers on all kinds of things.
I remember getting the lucky you stickers outside of holidays as well, back in the early 10s in downtown Portland, OR. Definitely was for theft prevention.
Lucky you! You are not a thief!
I worked there as well, you are correct about the sticker being a "proof of purchase" of sorts, but we never did activations or subsidization until iPhone 3. By then we had the blue "Thank You" stickers instead of the red "Lucky You".
@@pigybank i also worked there (I'm not)
Nice update
The crazy thing about this is, the moment MKBHD unboxed this iPhone 1, he made all the other unboxed iPhone 1's even rarer.
What
@@rishiraisesthebarr because there is one of them less now.
@@errrick you've got a point
"What"
Lmao
lol no
I remember buying an iPhone 3GS and shipping it all the way back to South Africa, jailbreaking it so I could activate it with a foreign sim card, accidentally updating the OS, and then having to wait *months* before the next jailbreak version came out and I could use the phone. Wild times. Thanks for biting the bullet, Marques! Fun video 🤘🏼
@@Account-nx3ui 2009/2010 ish
Why Cobus not Kobus?
@@Quovio yeah I've never seen it spelt with a c
Being Norweeigan, I had to get one pre jailbroken too. Jailbreaking was a big thing then. I still think fondly of the pineapple bootup logo one of the jailbreaks provided.
Similar story here. Me and my brother bought 3 iPhones while on holiday in the US in November 2007. Bought them back to Australia and jailbroke them to work locally. It was like being a rockstar having that phone before they were sold locally. Everyone wanted to try it out, look at it, and was amazed by it compared to every other phone at the time.
I worked at Apple when the iPhone came out. The "Lucky You" stickers were put on boxes when you checked out using the handheld "EasyPay" devices the employees carried around. During the holiday season there was an "Express" section set up along one side of our store for quick checkout. Since the iPhone was activated at home back then, you just could go buy one. We'd put the stickers on the boxes but not everyone put them on every box. This video is bringing back crazy memories!
@SuperNostalgia. Easy. Done. What's next?
@SuperNostalgia. Do you enjoy pasta?
@SuperNostalgia. be blessed by our saviour satan
I was in Apple Retail at this time as well. What this person is saying is 100% accurate.
what do you mean by "Since the iPhone was activated at home back then"
Wow - crazy how consistent the packaging has been over the generations.
I was working at the Apple Store when the OG iPhone came out. The “Lucky You” sticker was a holiday season thing that was added for fun around the same time we all received our red T-shirts with random products on them. I actually had one on my Apple name tag that was the plastic necklace with business cards on the back. Good times.
I saw another comment talking about this very thing, real interesting
Thanks for sharing, super cool
Ah. I wondered if it was a collab with Lucky Brand Jeans. Their jeans have a tag that says “lucky you” when you unbutton the fly. Lol
I was 8 around that time lol can’t imagine how it was like
So it was seen as a thing that a gift receiver would see as “lucky you for getting an iPhone for the holidays”
The "Lucky you" sticker was a special sticker introduced in Apple Stores during the Christmas season of 2007. Customers who wanted to gift the iPhone to someone would receive the sticker to attach to the boxed iPhone as a gift symbol, adding to the seasonal theme.
Oh that's pretty cool. I didn't know that!
so that’s a gift he bought for someone that he just never gave to them. Crazy how he cashed out 40k from it 😂
@@RedForeman might have been for a significant other and broke up right before, who knows.
Beautiful ❤
Big F in deal
The lucky you sticker was a way for employees to see if an item was paid for. There was also a blue one after that for a short while. You would buy let’s say an accessory off the sales wall and we’d place a sticker on it if your receipt was emailed to you.
Wow so that sticker made the shrink wrap itself more legit 😑😂😂
Imagine the camera wasn't recording...
good one
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$40000 would've gone for nothing XD
probably had a few cameras recording him
noone would risk such things. I would run 5 checks before actually recording.
Imagine if there is an old abandoned shop out there with a full stock of these
That would be pretty bad for resale value of these. Price would drop significantly
Zunes
They need that in a post apocalyptic movie
yea
@@AndrewDasilvaPLT zunes weee garage bro
Hi Marques! I worked at Apple Retail at the time. The sticker was placed on all Apple products during certain times of the year. We had rolls and rolls of the stickers. This was during the holidays for sure.
That specialist put it on upside (lazily). Super odd that no articles knew this!
Maybe we're too old now and nobody wants to hear our old stories
When I worked for Apple retail in 2014 and we had similar stickers which were blue and said ‘Thank You’ with an Apple Logo.
@@OmniaDart its true, I was the blue sticker.
Jeff Beck was an English Singer
@@Dev_UI Guitar player, I'd say.
To set the mood for 2007: Crocs, Highschool Musical, L33t speak, Guitar hero, Happy feet, BluRay, I like turtles kid, Simpsons movie, Keyboard cat, Dear Sister SNL skit, DS came out, Alvin, Oldschool Runescape, Bee Movie, Pokemon gen 4, Ratatouille, Charlie bit my finger, Drama gopher meme, Leave Brittany alone, Chocolate rain, What what in the butt.
9:23 it glitches
Tosh.0
I feel like Halo 3 and the final Harry Potter book came out that year as well.
We have very different memories of 2007.
God I miss it
I had the first iPhone and I remember being really sad that almost every generation after that you’d get less in the box. Having the dock was such a bonus.
i never realised how little we get in the boxes now until this video. like, i knew it. but there’s so much in this first one!! how are we paying more but getting less 😭 (rhetorical)
Because then it was new thing, right now everybody has dozen of cables, earbuds and chargers already, we do not need that shit anymore. And who the hell would need a dock in the "data in the cloud" era 😅
@@randomnickify It's all nothing but e-waste at this point.
and now they're about to take a charging port away lol
@@randomnickify iphones should absolutely come with earphones tbh
Actually, the original SIM size was a full credit-card size. My father used a Motorola MicroTac in the 90s and I remember him inserting it like a prepaid card on a telephone booth. The SIM card we knew and loved throughout the 2000s and early 2010s was officially called a "mini-SIM".
Exactly, I got a credit card sized one for my first phone back in the mid-nineties 😊
Yup, I remember back when I was a kid living in Mexico in the late 90s, people use to carry those huge sim cards so they could use the telephone booths… damn, I didn’t know I had this memory until now
Correct. Back in those days, the size of the SIM card was irrelevant.... the phones were so big anyway 😂
"Mini" what were they compensating for
@@1karanhasija the cost of the silicon wafer. About $3 per inch (25.4 millimeters). The smaller the chip the lower the cost.
While the SIM cards were much smaller than a 1 inch square, if we use that $3 bench mark and apply it to the 16,000,000 sold - that's a $48 million in cost.
What he didn't mention is: He bought those other $50-60k iPhones as well, and by opening up the $40k one on camera, he's made the other ones even more valuable
No way 😂 , if this is true , that’s intense.
Source?
@@YaasshDhamani trust me bro
They weren't worth that because they were already opened and used so he paid significantly less for those phones. Dont you listen or understand how things with value work? I guess not. N
@@krucial88they’re joking saying he ALSO bought the other unopened iphone auctions as a way to invest
Hi Marques! Sharing a story about the original iPhone. My dad bought one at launch and got a hip mounted leather case for it. After three years, we got badly stuck in a flooded mud bog. Trying to get the Suburban free, my dad lost his iPhone case and all. We didn't know it until we got home. Went back, couldn't find it. The bog froze over with solid ice for about 2 months. We went back in the spring, and found the iPhone in an ice+mud block. He took it home, cleaned it thoroughly, and let it sit out in the sun for a few days. Then, he tried to turn it on. Dead. Let it charge, then, IT TURNED ON. And best of all, everything worked perfectly! I've never shared the story before because I thought no one would believe it. Will never forget that phone. Thanks for the memories.
I heard that happened to someone's iPhone 5c lmao back when that was new
Ah yes, the good old days back when Apple gave us accessories for our devices for free 😂
Well they sure weren't free. But there wasn't that much of a hype around the product, that the price of it was actually tied to it's development, production and retail cost. So the devices were cheaper and they included more accessories for the money you paid them.
its really sad how Apple got that greedy for basic SHT
@@mirelleelle7712 Not really. People have enabled this. They keep buying it, they'll keep doing it.
"For free"! lol
Needs more upvotes
It's underwhelming when you finally get the thing you want. The wanting in life can sometimes be more satisfying than the having. Tks for taking the leap, sharing and letting us follow along.
I like the bidding, the package, the unpackage, until the phone is on, just like you said above
Very true. I find that every time I get something I want I’m instantly ready and looking for the next thing. But I used to be a pill addict years ago so I’m not sure if that’s just my addictive personality or what lol.
Once you pop you just cant stop. And how chould you, given that nothing satisfies or indeed ever can satisfy the will, which is always striving and thus sufferin as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. But there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or ends to suffering, and for our constant strunggle for more ihpones.
True. There is eternity in man's heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11), which the famous mathematician Blaise Pascal called, "God-shaped vacuum." The video "What is the Meaning of Life?" by Bibles for America does a good job in explaining this.
I wanted to spend a month traveling in the Caribbean for years... Then I finally got a chance to do some IT work for a company that had a location in the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, and in Barbados. I spent 2 months there and everyday felt like a dream!😁
the reason why it didn't turn on with the first brick is because the battery had an
undervoltage / deep discharge from slowly losing energy over the many years it was sitting in the box.
some bricks don't detect the device when the battery voltage is under a certain level, so they won't charge it.
so if you accidentally store your phone with an empty battery and it doesn't charge after a while, a different brick is always worth a try.
sorry for my bad english and regards from switzerland
Folks with English better than half of my graduating class always apologize for their "bad english" lol. You're better off than most I know.
@@PocketsRidesI always think the same thing lol the fact there’s commas and periods alone makes them better at English than a ton of the (native English speaking) students in the country.
Your grammar and syntax is better than most Americans. Nothing to be sorry about. You seem to be on a very high level of grammar and vocabulary while most people in the US, now, can't pass a 2nd grade reading exam.
@@ExcludedShadow To be fair apostrophes and often times commas are completely unnecessary if you just want to bring your point across. I would argue it doesnt even help readability so I just dont care at all to do the extra work. I also use things like ur, y and things like that because I expect everyone to know what it means. Doesnt mean my english is better or worse just because I am not writing "correct" english.
@@mysticaldevotion863 it helps readability a ton, especially if someone doesn’t know how long a sentence should be. I give up trying to read some comments. It makes my brain hurt trying to dissect an essay that’s essentially just one ginormous run on sentence haha
I stopped using ur, y, k, after we no longer had to click one button 3+ times to finally get the one letter you wanted. Plus there’s no character limit on most platforms, other than X but who uses that anyways. That being said I understand where you’re coming from.
Well, THIS is the type of stuff that’s super fun to see every now and then, that earns an instant sub from me. I LOVE old Apple tech let alone an iPhone 2G.
The dock still looked so timeless even still look good by today standards.
yeah its value *stands* to this day
Better than samshi- oop i ment samsung
These days, Apple and Samsung are on the same level, nothing inside the box but the phone :/
@@iAmNothingness hahah good one
All those accessories in the box, today we feel blessed to even get a charging cable 😂
Yooooo riiiigght!!
That’s y’all fault. Aka Goofy will buy anything instead of Boycotting.
you guys got charging cables ?!
Only counts for isheeps to.
But keep in mind how much emissions the accessories in the box caused, man *sniff*, not even Chernobyl was so detrimental to environment
Love this mate, i remember buying this phone back in the day, I Was living in London and was a broke chef. I saved up for months just to be able to afford one.
Coming up chef!
Favorite RUclipsr in the comments of another favorite RUclipsr. Nice seeing you here chef 😎
Did babe order one too?
the collab(?) we didn’t know we needed
That's a lot of fish n' chips you must of sold to be one of the first to get the O.G. iPhone.
Imagine the cameraman said “oops I forgot to record”
holy crap marques would have gotten so mad
12:25 The iPhone used to be shipped with a dock and a lot of other accessories because back then Apple still had to make an effort to convince people to buy their products. Now they don't even add a power brick 😅
Just looking at the box itself is already sad. The box is a brick compared to the current ones despite the phones being way larger
the same happened with iBooks / Macbooks, on 2000s it came with a bunch of adaptors.
The iPod dock was awesome.
I remember when it was like the "next gen thing" because you could just put your iPod and no need to change CDs.
@@flintstone1409 don't know about that. I mean, most customers would still opt for a brick. So if it's all about customer demands, Apple could have offered to give out 10$ vouchers to people who forgo the brick.
@@flintstone1409 yep I remember when everyone always complained about the useless barrage of cables they’d get in the box and accumulate a drawer full of useless chargers.
How times change
According to an AppleInsider reader who worked in Apple retail when the company launched the first iPhone, the "Lucky You" stickers were available during the holidays if customers chose a gift box. "We used to have pre-cut and folded boxes that fit the products precisely and the stickers to seal them," they said.
I worked in a third-party mobile phone retail store in the United Kingdom when these were released, and I remember sheets of those lucky you stickers and applying them to the first batch of pre orders that arrived. Although, to be honest, most shops just put the sheets of stickers in the bin. I only applied them to a few myself, I mean, like 2 or 3, and then was told to stop as it was taking time.
Imagine how big of a cunt your supervisor must have been to say that a 4 second procedure was "taking time". Jeez, chill, this person just sold their right kidney, I'm just trying to cheer them up...
weird, it was used by Apple fot their employees
@@JustMinecraft4Eva yeah its weird that he's a liar
Im also Elon Musk
Hi Marques, those “lucky you” stickers were introduced in Apple Stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iPhone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too.
I'm not even an Apple guy, but I can appreciate the gigantic impact the iPhone had on the world. So seeing a legit unboxed original is so cool. Imagine what those will be worth in the future.
optimistic to think society will last long enough for a future where money and iphones still matter
lol he watches Justine
Yeah no shit everyone can appreciate the impact
Yeah no shit everyone can appreciate the impact
Never had the original iPhone, but had a company provided iPhone 3G in 2008, and a 3GS in 2009 - I thought they were the shizzle after using Blackberry's crap for years - then I left that employer and went to Android. Since then & many Android phones later I'm back with an iPhone employer so have had the same lousy iPhone 11 for over 3 years now - no doubt they will replace it shortly - but personally use a Pixel 6 - because iOS is for luddites and iPhone hardware is balls (for the money they ask anyway)
It's insane to spend $40,000 on an old collectible phone. But boy, you know, there's no better joy than to spend your money on toys that you've always wanted. This was incredible to watch man, thank you!
and of course...adsense would pay at least some of the money he spent, well it's worth from the excitement stand point as gadget enthusiasts and you bought that to show off to million people too, so I'd say I'd be just happy to do what marques did if I get the chance with the same amount of platform he has
it is kind of funny when he talks about it like its not just back within 10 minutes of the video being released, to youtubers, 40 000 is just another payment, but hey, I guess they have to act relatable for the audience
He can write it off as a business expense.
No it's just insane
How the f do people find this “incredible to watch”!? Maybe if it was like 100 years ago, sure, would be kinda cool to see, like a time capsule. That’s why time capsules are often sealed for a good 100 years because it takes that long for something to be interesting again. Otherwise, 40k on a sealed piece of crap device from only 15 years ago? Who actually gives a crap!? This was actually pointless. Would have been smarter for him to actually build a real time capsule with his logo engraved on it, filled it will a bunch of technology and buried it.
Thinking about a comparison video between every company's first smartphone
yess thatss interesting
Nokia, LG, Blackberry, Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus, Microsoft, Google, Sony, Samsung, HTC, ASUS, Apple, Oppo, Motorola and Realme
Definitely, I loved the creativity companies did to get into smartphones market. Hopefully he does it.
Brings back memories. I have two original iPhones. Working at Apple at the time they announced we'd all get one months after launch. However, me and some co-workers decided we couldn't wait and purchased our own. Our spouses ended up with the gift phones. One thing I remember clearly was that the phone really needed a rubber case as it would constantly want to launch out of my hand when I'd bring it out of my pocket due to how smooth it was and rounded.
the original sim card size actually was like a credit card. worked with the first mobile phones back in the 90s. I remember we had motorola's phone here. With the newer models you had to take the smaller, this iphone's sim card size cards later on :D
Exactly! I had an Ericsson flip that used to take the entire credit card sized SIM. This iPhone sized SIM was called the mini SIM, then came micro and then nano now
Yeah I still have a MINI to original SIM card adapter lol
Yeah that was another thing that Apple implemented into phones and that it is now common. The size of the SIM cards. There was no such thing as micro or mini SIM cards before the iPhone.
You beat me to it, my early mobiles all had the credit card sized sim cards.
@@rodrigojds You are wrong, the mini SIM has been used since the late 90's. Maybe you mean the micro SIM which was used on iPhone 4, and it was the first or one of the first phones to use that SIM card format.
That’s the most insane level of packaging I’ve ever seen.
Htc was great back then too
Hence the decades of unboxing videos since.
@@hopegold883 the Apple packaging was nothing I was referring to the wooden box from the auction house.
clearly you didn't buy a laser pointer in the 90s
@@loldoctor actually i was one of the first people in buy a laser pointer in the 90s. Got one at Radio Shack for I think $120. At the time no one had seen one before except perhaps in movie. It was incredible.
Man, the original iPhone did look majestic. And OMG that dock makes it look infinitely better.
I remember when this thing came out and everybody was talking about it as it was a giant leap in phone technology for he time. I had just bought about 3 months before this came out, the LG phone with a analog tv receiver built in with the telescoping antenna that pulled out from the top. So when this came out it made that phone literally look like a toy and a stupid novelty compared to this future looking computer for your hands. Top of the line phones at that time i think were about $250-$300..... so when this first IPhone had a price of $700+ it was a shocker for everybody for the price along with the new era of technology unfolding in front of us.
@@smooth_ops2942 bullshit. top of the line phones were 900+++ or even 2000 +++= Nokia Communicator or Nokia Titanium series etc. - and of course Palm phones - iPhone was right in the middle.
Super cool video. It’s amazing to think that it’s been sitting in that box for your entire RUclips career
The accessories we used to get are insane. Some androids came with extra batteries, ear buds, screen protectors and cases. Now we don’t even get the damn charger. I wonder what they’ll take out next. Hell, the box will probably just come with a phone voucher that you will have to redeem in store.
You don't own your technology anymore. You lease it.
In Apple China they give you phone case, screen protector and charger for free
God bless, its so much more environment friendly and economical to not include stuff people might not actually need. In todays age people might have 20 of the same chargers at home. The ear buds often dont get used extra batteries arent necessary..... I have seen a video on this and there are different reasons for it other then the sellers being cheap. Not 100% sure but I think the EU helped with this and its an incredibly good thing for everyone. Everyone that complains about this either has no clue why they are complaining or they are just so lazy to not buy something else they might need. Accessories were never "free".... their price just got put onto the product itself.
@@mysticaldevotion863 Accessories are never “free” yet prices of phones did not decrease while things were taken away.
@@mysticaldevotion863 I think your entire comment is backwards and incorrect and this is not an arguable statement. Buy a $1300 MacBook, or even just the cheapest Mac they make, they don't leave a way to power it out. They always include that because they MUST. Your whole EU thing is complete BS and everyone on the planet knows it. The EU did nothing here. Apple made the conscious decision to remove chargers and now some devices don't even come with a cable. In a business setting, if I was on a job and had to have an emergency device replacement and I couldn't even use it because I don't have a power brick or even a $.39 cable, I'd send it back and sue for lost revenue.
iPhones used to be a whole experience to unbox. The dock, the iconic white headphones, the microfibre cloth. It’s all so clearly aimed at creating a luxury experience that really differentiated Apple in the market and helped propel them to where they are today. The iPhone was such a massive achievement that the first Android device had to be completely scrapped because it wouldn’t have come close to what Apple just released. Such a monumental milestone in the tech industry! Thanks for this great trip down memory lane, Marques!
thats cap lol. Misinformed comment
@@ihavenoidea2167 what are you talking about... When the iPhone came out it changed everything. Other touch screen phones didn't even come close. It's true.
@@ihavenoidea2167 I was 16 in 2007 and only a few of us had them at school. Comparing that to the regular flip phones or even early smartphones of the day was a massive difference, not only because of the cost, but the functionality of having every device wrapped into one package. It was a watershed moment in technological advancement and changed the landscape of communication forever.
@@ihavenoidea2167 originally android had a physical keyboard kinda like blackberry but they never released that phone and went with a full touchscreen after iphone dropped
@@r033cx I'm pretty sure I used the G1 android phone(which had a full sized keyboard that you had to slide the screen up to reveal) for quite some time all those years ago and I loved it, still wish there were phones with physical keyboard,
not sure what phone you meant that they supposedly didn't release
The only thing that was missing for me to be happy for the rest of my life was to see the iPhone working. I hope you can make it work and upload a video testing the apps, camera, and speakers. Awesome video!!!!!
He did. In the every iphones video.
@victor u have a sad life
Threw away 40,000 for a 2 minute nostalgia experience. 40,000 would be life changing for me
I remember driving from Ontario Canada to Buffalo US to buy the first iPhone during the first week of the launch. It was an exciting drive and it took weeks (or months) until the first unlock method was available so I could use it in Canada. I still have my first iPhone in brand new condition (although it's not sealed anymore). The good old days ...
That was a nice time capsule. Hard to believe its been 16 years.. You really stood out of the crowd back then if you had an Iphone. I remember so many people asking me, "Is that an Iphone!?!"
This is the Apple consumers mentality in a nutshell.
@@NzRasengan Yeah... lol Apple is crap
@NzRasengan 😄 Maybe so. I gave up Iphones in 2020 and never going back.
@@NzRasengan 😂😂😂😂😂
@@fade2black001 ratio
The original iPhone was sold for $499 in 2007.
$500 worth of Apple stock purchased in 2007 would be worth $23,000 today.
It would have been a better investment to stockpile sealed iPhones.
Holy shit that really makes you think
Let me get me inside my time machine real quick
If you sold them they'd drop in price rapidly
that would crash the price Iphone price comes from its volume, Apple stock does not have a supply and demand weakness.
I think you are missing a zero, with stock splits I put it at 500k
I remember getting an iPhone 1 in 2007, absolutely beautiful moment to relive.
The unboxing experience and look was legendary in those days. Sad that they are gone
it came with microfiber cloth and dock as well lol, it's wild, so sad that we pay premium now for much less unboxing experience
now a days they keep reducing things like cables and charging bricks, along with box itself getting smaller and smaller
Android is trash 🤮
This phone was so revolutionary back in the day and thank you for sharing this. I almost want to rewatch the keynote from its release!
Absolutely! This phone really started it all. I was a sophomore in high school and worked everyday after school to save money to buy this phone when it was released. I’ve always been a tech guy and it really caught my attention. I think I was the first person at my school to have one and everyone wanted to mess with it lol. It felt so cool to hold it the first time and to text people from it. Those were the days! Tech has been rocking and rolling since then at an incredibly fast pace!
I remember being like 14 seeing my sister's BF showing off the iphone at Christmas and everyone in my family was mind blown. Never could have guessed that format would become so ubiquitous. Got my first smart phone in 2010, Galaxy S1 and the world has never been the same haha
boooo
I remember just having bought a shiny new iPod and a premium Nokia flip phone when Apple dropped the bomb that they were going to combine everything in a single device. (We never got the 1st gen iPhone here in Sweden though, so I had some time enjoying my other devices..)
I still have a an S1!
are they still together.
Please say they’re still together lol
Those “lucky you” stickers were introduced in Apple Stores during Christmas season 2007. If you wanted to gift the iPhone to someone, you got one of those stickers and put em on the phone. A lot of people with no intention to gift the phones got them too.
You left a 16yr old battery to charge overnight unattended?! 😬🔥
Great unboxing. That dock accessory was really cool.
probably had several cctv pointed at it, with heat sensing alarm turned on and monitoring the charging voltage remotely from his phone 😅
It's an iPhone, not a Samsung.
@@Yakuzaka1412 yeah but there would be no battery to charge if it was a Samsung. it would've exploded 14 years ago.
The Dock was excellent. Remember one of the primary uses of iPhone, was iPod. You'd have the dock on your desk, connected to awesome speakers, and you'd get home and sit it in the dock, iTunes would sync and you could control media from the screen and see the time when pressing home or sleep/wake. The dock has grills in the bottom which pass audio though for the mic and speaker, both on the base of the phone. So you could use it as a speaker phone, sitting in the dock. However the original speaker was super quiet. Even the ringtone was hard to hear, and alarms hard to hear, vs later models.
There is a chance that the original power brick didn't work due to capacitor leakage inside of the power supply of the brick. That tends to happen a lot on old electronics.
I worked for Apple retail from 2007 to 2012, and that Christmas we’d put those lucky you stickers on pretty much every interaction with a customer. We had special edition red shirts (which I’ve still got!) and we had literally REELS of those stickers.
I was working Christmas 2007 at Regent Street in London and in the iPod pen, which was literally a table with a stack of Nanos and Classics with a crowd of people buying them on our portable registers (which were actually called iPads, fun fact). Every one of those iPods had a lucky you sticker on.
A lot of staff also ended up with stickers on them at some point.
You unboxed a time capsule. The moment you cut open the wrap, all old memories of mine came back. All the things I went thru, all the people I lived with, in the year 2007. I was excited yet panicked not only for the phone, but also for the memories sealed in the year 2007.
wow
As someone that purchased 19 of these through our company back in 07” then left to open & set them all up for all of our employees, “an absolute headache btw” I can tell you that everything in your unboxing seems to be the same as it was back then. I vividly remember the feeling of unwrapping the plastic the first clicks of the buttons, & pushing the handset into their docks. Over time the dock began to feel like it was making less of a connection when placing it on. I remember our employees when they came into work on Monday morning & they all had a new iPhone sitting on docks on their desks. We didn’t get any units with the stickers, It may have been only in the U.S
UK?
Wow
Man the audio game on your videos are on another level nowadays. You got a superb team. I loved the last few seconds
The holy grail ending scene from Indiana jones raiders of the lost ark.
@@kanefrisby907 It was the Ark of the Covenant, not the Grail. The Grail was in the third movie.
@@MountainDrew42 Oh bruh. A movie buff in his own right. Respect! 😂 😅
I remember in 2013 I had the idea of buying a iPhone 1 sealed as an investment, they were selling for about 4k
Dam, in 14 years you went from reviewing a media Center remote at your parent's house to buying a 40k original iPhone. Mighty trajectory.
fr 😂
I mean 14 years is quite long, lebron didnt have a single ring. Now he's in a GOAT debate with jordan
You realize he's been big for a long time now right? He showed us Apollo almost 6+ years ago and has a $100k+ robot arm for B reel footage. Didn't take 14 years for him to be able to blow $40k lol
@@mattycampy 2023 subtracted by 14 is 2009, his first stint in cleveland and his first MVP year. I'm surprised how most of you cant do math
well deserved too
I had one right before I went off to college. They would get so warm after a little while of talking and it was actually quite uncomfortable to use. I remember calling my dad on it this one time and both my ear and hand were so warm that the phone either shut off or I had to hang up. Then the 3G came out and I changed to that and I remember thinking that the plastic back felt better. Wow, time flies, technology certain does. I feel so ancient and I’m only in my early 30s 😂
Lucky You!
ok
POWER OF QUALCOMMMM
@PostageDew thats just being as old as a fossil
33 here and SAME BRO smfh
Great video Marques, I remember the sheer excitement I got when I got to do the very same unboxing for Christmas 2007. This video gave me major nostalgia vibes and a wonderful trip back to simpler times in my life. It's funny how a small brick of metal can give you such nice memories.
Dude bought a $40000 mp3 player lol
Absolutely loved this video! A piece of Apple history that I wish I could have. But seeing yiu unboxing it and all is quite a treat to me.
I’m sorry for the typo.
@@LeahDykema no worries haha
I think this is the quickest depreciation without physically breaking anything I've ever seen....
Collectors are weird, imagine paying thousands upoun thousands in a box because that's what they're paying for, they'll keep it in a box forever without ever enjoying the product if we stop to think this is peak nonsense.
Idk people who bought the first Boeing 737 max 8s might have a argument
The plastic wrap WAS broken though
And that shows it was legit. They could replace it with a new plastic but didn't.@@TheRenegade...
@@xGusthyeah but this dude made more money back from this video
This reminds me so much of my receiving one from my wife for Christmas in 2007. An incredible unboxing experience. Nobody else that I knew had one, so it was quite a feeling.
Having a feeling of superiority isn't something to be proud of...
@@JustinLesamiz Yes it is, maybe you should stop being self-conscious and feel better about yourself. Having an ego is one thing but occasionally feeling a positive difference in comparison with others is completely normal and good on your mental health.
@@JustinLesamizYes it is just like I feel better than you. Probably because I am.
@@JustinLesamizcry about it
Imported and jailbreaked this bad boy back in -07. Time flies.
I remember getting this phone on launch day. I also remember being hassled by so many people wanting to see it. I never let it go from my hands. People were literally jealous of my phone. Everyday for like a month someone would ask me about it when they seen me using it. That iPhone was a chick magnet for real!
funny thing i was expecting it to look terrible and old, but it still looks high quality and like you could use it today, and like it, as a small retro phone in a era of giant phones. build quality is excellent.
Love the Indy-esque post-credit scene, would've been cool to see the camera pull out to show the miles long warehouse of other wooden crates...
Thx you are the first one i see who recognized it.
I care more about the refrence than about this stupid sticker 😂😂
@@leonardnetzlaw1697 same
The Lucky You sticker was for pre-orders (Pre-Purchased/PAID FOR) through Singular/AT&T or Apple. I spent my earlier tech years in college buying first gen iPhones and Jailbreaking them for use on other carriers and reselling them. I only saw it on a few boxes when buying them back in the day. Regular over the counter purchases did not have these stickers.
Hey kyle hows your life? what do you do for a living?
Tell us how are you doing please :3
Actually no..... It was 2007 xmas edition
wrong
Nothing compared to Apple packaging.
It was top notch.
I have a “lucky you” sticker but I don’t remember what it was about.
It’s crazy everything that came with the original iPhone and all they’ve reduced over the years.
That SIM is actually a 'mini SIM'. The true original SIM is the size of a credit card! SIM, mini, micro, nano.
Came to say this!
Came to say this.
Came to say this?
I came to so say this...
The Lucky You sticker is what the Apple Store employees would put on the item so you could walkout of the store without being stopped. They later changed to “Thank You” stickers. I also believe that the red ones were for the holiday period when the branding was red during that time.
figured as much
Incredible. That thing belongs in a museum. What an incredible device that changed the world forever.
Otro episodio de la serie 'Cómo tirar el dinero'. Magnífico.
I would never spend $40k on something like this, but I love you did because it was so interesting to watch you open that. I had a gen 1 or 2 iphone (can't remember exactly), but it had that microfiber and I remember how clever I thought the box and packaging was.
How the auction house packaged it was also very interesting.
why not he is rich
@@JinnyTvv its nto that he is rich he wants to make a video of himself bragging about his purchase. I don't know how much he will make on this video but on most of the video the products he reviews are few so paying once in a while is not a big deal for him.
I mean I would if I were as rich as he was, plus he's a tech channel so he got a cool video out of it.
@@NoName-kq5gl anything he buys for this channel is a tax write off
Nobody cares about your net worth or your shopping preferences
That's the biggest package I've ever seen for a phone.., 😂
Yeah, remember when you used to get a bunch of accessories and everything you needed when you bought expensive equipment
Now I'm in the Members section
Haha@@ExplosiveGaming9035
@@ExplosiveGaming9035MEE TOOOOO
Being a member is so useless
That dock is slick! I wish today's iPhone still gave you small things like that as it did in the past.
The dramatic ending! 😂
The original SIM card size was the same as a credit card (and also partly why even modern SIM cards, until fairly recently, all came on a credit card sized piece of plastic). In the iPhone, that's a mini-SIM. My aunt had a phone with the credit card sized SIM; I remember playing with it and blocking the PIN, seeing "Enter PUK code" for the very first time. Wasn't the last.
"Enter PUK code" was a nightmare if you lost the credit card plastic 😂
@Hassan Mohammed ahhh the memories 😂
Ok just posted the same info about the original being like a credit card 😅 scrolled a bit more to find a similar comment because I was surprised there wasn't one upvoted at the top! For me, seeing the original size was in a friend of my mom's phone that had a brick of a phone with a one row screen and an antenna even longer than the actual Phone that would fold on the side.
We had phone booths in Ghana that you could insert the credit card sized SIM to make calls
Watching a legitimate unboxing video of the original iPhone is a crazy and incredible experience. Thank you for the amazing content you provide as always!😁😇
jezus your life must suck if you find this amazing lol
This was awesome to watch! Back when apple used to put chargers in the box hahaha now they’re more expensive with nothing more😂😂
Im honestly glad they don't, everyone has a charger it's so easy to charge things nowadays
@@TheDiamondSlayer1 id take the extra one aniway especially with fast charger now i hate buying them
@@TheDiamondSlayer1 Yes we have a "charger" but when you upgrade your phone once in 4 years the previous charger is obsolete eg. 15W vs 45W ...
@@TheDiamondSlayer1
Ok i get your point but i don't think that this is something to be glad about.
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I got one of these used on ebay 3 months after launch for $250. It was a birthday gift for my wife. It was used but basically looked brand new besides one small dent in the back of the phone. It didn't have texting available until an update a month later which is crazy to think about now. My wife loved the phone and I can say to this day she was a pioneer.
Now I officially feel ‘old’… for having bought one myself in SF in 2007 a few days after the launch. I remember exactly what it felt like to purchase, unpack and activate it back then. It was such a superior feel to any device before… Thanks for that! 😅 🙏🏻
I was a little later, with a 3GS. Two things sold me on it: How a business colleague of mine used either the OG or 3G -- I don't remember which -- with cell tower triangulation (it didn't have GPS), to navigate on a digital map, in real time, from a _phone._ And, a friend who had the 3G, and could hit a self-hosted web server and stream MP3s over the cell network.
That stuff was mind-blowing at the time. It just flipped the table over, in terms of how powerful a mobile device could be. My work Blackberry could technically browse a web page... and was sometimes worth the trouble of doing it. There was no comparison between them.
ok
Impressive how the battery is still working after all these years
Well, it has never been used so it's not that suprising
Duh it was never Open
@@oscarhagman8247 Batteries degrade over time, even when unused.
@@oscarhagman8247 batteries degrade overtime even when not in use
A battery that sit flat for years could remain permanently dead even without being used
I remember the black cloth because my first gen iPod touch also came with one. Most of the packaging actually is super similar to the iPod touch except it didn’t come with the full dock. Instead it came with a tiny plastic stand and a dock adapter. Still have all of those original pieces in the box too 😅
I know apple wouldn’t do it, but for the 20th anniversary of the iPhone they should make a I phone 1. Just looks like a iPhone one, maybe a bit larger and would have the general stats of your normal iPhone.
Fantastic video - took me all the way back to 2007 when I got mine. I was actually living in the UK at the time, and managed to purchase one off eBay on Friday July 6th, just one week after its US launch (it cost £549.99 plus delivery). The problem then of course was that they were all locked to AT&T. I had to wait until Monday September 3rd to order a software unlock, which bizarrely came out of Australia. That cost me 60 Australian dollars. It wasn't for another week or so before the people behind the software unlock actually got it working properly, and finally was able to put my UK SIM into an unlocked iPhone and start using it on Wednesday September 12th.
It was fun going back through all the emails!
how do you remember the dates so clearly?
@@danielngongang9419 they looked at the dates on some emails exchanged between them all the way back in 2007
@danielngongang9419 yep. I remember working for att when these came out. People would he calling in to get them unlocked and we told them we couldn't. They would throw a hissy fit.
then for it to be released for £269
@@danielngongang9419 Hahaha. My memory is appalling, but I have all the emails of course :)
I'm not a big Apple person. I don't own any Apple devices. But at the same time, watching this video is like watching a slice of history. It's amazing.
We really do have a lot to thank because of Apple. For questionable they can be sometimes, we wouldn’t be where we ate today
It's privilege.
Me too! Lol
I was working in an Apple Store when the first iPhone was being sold. The “Lucky You ” was a sticker they had for Specialists to put on new products when we sold them. I think I still have a few in my Apple memorabilia box.
I remember selling these at an AT&T corporate store in Orange County CA. Someone said this was 500$ but it was not. This was back in the days of the 2 year commitment. Iphones in general were exclusive to ATT for like 4 or 5 years and the 2 year upgrade or new activation price was 199$ and you would pay the tax on the full retail amount of the phone which I believe was 600$
You are the #1 representing all the geeks around the world , such a nice video approached with dry humor !!! You are the best Marques
The amount of packaging to unbox that phone was insane! Gread vid as always Marques!
I worked for AT&T when this was released and wanted one really badly. I had to wait for 6 months after they came out before I could get one. All AT&T employees were restricted from getting one ourselves because how high demand they were.
That’s where family and friends come in 👌🏼
Could've bought one as a personal. I don't think there such policy could exist to restrict buying it for personal use.
It’s funny, the difference in the unboxing experience has seriously deteriorated over time. The phones have got better and better, but the unboxing is so much worse ! Imagine buying an iPhone today with headphones, charging brick etc now you don’t even get stickers!
I love that this video exists, how we can all agree about the absurdity of buying this at such a ridiculous price (only to "destroy" it within seconds) and yet it all makes sense when you watch the video. Thanks for having an incredible channel ❤️🖤
It doesn't make sense at all... It's pure waste.
@@JustinLesamizit's not pure waste because it's a business expense for a video production, which then comes with a whole slew of value propositions. Also, the dude has money, so if he wants to spend that kind of money on something like this and he doesn't regret it, then it's not a waste.
Unless you didn't mean that it was a waste of money and rather meant that it is a waste of an item that is in low supply. In which case I'd just say that the item itself doesn't really have intrinsic value anyway, so I'm not sure that you can really waste it. Whatever value it had was paid for, and at that point anything that happens isn't a waste, otherwise it wouldn't have sold.
@@MattMcConaha 💯 if anything this is a good thing, because the process is well documented. If its unopened forever, its just that, theres no point to the box really🤷♂️
Might be the nostalgia talking but I love the look of this phone and that stand. There's something super nice about the simplicity of the device. I love having the dock with a headphone jack so you can hook it up to a bedside speaker or something