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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] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Fragile prototypes? And then he decided not to do anything about it and sell them as is?

I will never forgive the world for buying into his overhyped inferior product and get hailed as a genius for it.

Bring back buttons, and screens that don't shatter from being sneezed on.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and what's up with these transistors? I want vacuum tubes in my iPhone!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buttons? Ew.

I have consistently been Luddish about moves like this (removign physical keyboard, eliminating phone jack, even the tablet form factor in general) but I think I was mostly wrong, and monimizing hardware features in favor of software seems to improve user experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I only disagree with the removal of 3.5mm and microSD ports, and removable batteries. Imo the ports are both 100% needed, and the battery would be nice though I understand waterproofing is important. I'm fine with screens and no physical keys, though I would like a camera cover switch for at least one of the two cameras if possible, like laptops are starting to have.