I. INTRODUCTION
When the Apple iPhone was announced in January 2007, the response was overwhelming. Within two months of the announcement, the search term ‘iPhone’ yielded over 60 million web page references in Google [1]. When iPhone finally launched in June 2007, consumers lined up for days for the chance to purchase one and over 500,000 units sold on the first weekend. Since that time, millions of iPhones have been sold, arguably making it one of the most successful mobile phone products ever launched. Why has the iPhone been so successful? The objective of this paper is to provide evidence showing the factors that have contributed to success and the lessons that can be learned from the iPhone. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II provides the criteria used to determine the success of the iPhone, as well as support for the assertion that the iPhone can be deemed a success. Section III details the success model containing factors that have been identified as contributing to the successes of the iPhone. Section IV provides lessons learned from the iPhone launch and subsequent strategies and tactics. Section V outlines the contributions of this research to academics and practitioners as well as the research limitations and future research directions.