I believe it's easy to agree with the claim that iPhone X was and is the most important phone release since the original iPhone, so of course, this is a story of homage to one of the most important phones ever made, and I'll do my best to point out what made the iPhone X as important as it was.
The catch here is that there's a slight chance iOS 16 might not be the last update iPhone X will get. We'll also discuss if iPhone X users should be looking to upgrade now or in a few months. But before that, perhaps the most straightforward way of gauging the iPhone X's significance for Apple and the phone market as a whole is by the level of interest and engagement it attracted from "the normal folk" (not us, tech nerds).
To that point, I was just scrolling through YouTube when I saw a video by one of the great current-gen storytellers of our day, Casey Neistat. It was November 3, and Casey was buzzing around New York (as he does), talking to people on the street (as he does), but this time there were hundreds of them, and they were waiting in line… to buy the brand new iPhone X.
We're talking long lines of 200-300 people (as per the video), some of whom had been waiting since 4AM. Tents, blow-up mattresses, and a whole lot of patience and enthusiasm - all for an iPhone.
Having changed Apple and Android forever, iPhone X is the most important phone since the original iPhone
It's important to note that a fair amount of the people who happen to wait in line for a new iPhone would simply flip it on eBay. But still, the interest in the iPhone X was much higher than for any iPhone that came after it (people used to wait in line for older iPhones, but that's because… different times).
The YouTube videos with millions of views and even TV coverage of the iPhone X (Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and news channels across the US - all talked about Apple's new phone) were a clear indicator of Apple's mighty marketing machine. But the iPhone X wasn't the most important phone since the original iPhone just because it generated hype (looking at you, Nothing Phone).
