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Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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• Steve Jobs faked full signal strength and swapped devices during the first iPhone demo due to fragile prototypes and bug-riddled software.

• Engineers got drunk during the presentation to calm their nerves.

• Despite the challenges, Jobs successfully completed the 90-minute demonstration without any noticeable issues.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And then when you have issues with this kind of stuff when your own managers do it, they'll just turn to you and say, "you don't understand how business works"

You're right, yes, business is a field made for liars.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Had this on Friday.

  • Boss: Have we hit the milestone?
  • Me: No, our performance is low and we don't know why? We need to analyse it.
  • Boss: ...but we've done what we said we'd do. We shouldn't beat ourselves up over some metric. I think we've should say we've made it.

Net result is that we've pushed a major problem into the next phase without giving ourselves more time to do anything about it. ...and people wonder why projects are "late" at the last moment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

"The Mythical Man-Month" is a book written in the 70s based on experiences from software development in the 60s, and project managers still cling to the myths about project planning it debunked conclusively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This is a success because we said so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hey, those executives worked very hard on their coloring sheets in business school!