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Photos: Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch

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By Steve Ranger

Published: 18 September 2007 16:21 BST

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Apple has already sold one million of the phones in the US.

There had been long-running speculation about which operator would offer the iPhone in the UK, and Jobs (above) responded to a question about how the other UK networks felt about the negotiations by saying: "We dated a few people that we didn't marry and then we found someone we wanted to marry and we did. So there's a few upset girlfriends out there. It wasn't an economic choice it was a cultural choice."

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