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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 AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[+] cm0002@lemmy.world -12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I wonder where we'd be if the iPhone was a flop. Android was well in development, but as an independent company, the success of the iPhone is what prompted Google to buy Android a year later

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google bought Android in 2005. The iPhone was announced in 2007. The iPhone didn't have anything to do with Google and Android. Google had a slower hardware start because it has to convince companies to switch from making Windows Phones to Android Phones.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes but the first android prototype was a blackberry clone with horizontal tiny screen and all physical keyboard. The iPhone changed everything even if on paper was worse (no apps, ultra closed, expensive on contract)

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, that is Steve Job's attempt to having re-write history to make Apple look better. The truth is, the prototype you are referring to was called "Sooner", but at the same time, they were making a prototype called "Dream" (in 2006) that was a full touchscreen.

https://www.osnews.com/story/27481/sooner-prototype-dropped-well-before-the-iphone-announcement/

On top of this, phones were already moving to full touch screens. Windows Mobile 2005 was designed for touchscreen only (MS attempt was the Start menu on the bottom), but it wasn't a requirement and companies wanted to play it safe. After that came the LG Prada which was a full touchscreen phone.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don't really think so. Google took another two years to release the HTC dream and at release was shipped in beta. If they were already developing a "touch first" handset it wouldn't have been that long. They shipped the device without an on screen keyboard! It came only later with updates

And the start menù of win mobile 6.5 with the nice hexagons was just a nice menu, the rest of the os still required stylus and tiny buttons on those terrible resistive touch screens

[–] danielbln@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Android's interface was all BlackBerry in terms of UI too. The full touch control came after iPhones launch.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Symbian to this day. It would be hell.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Phone I remember using Symbian on my N95. It was really pushed to the limits on that phone and it showed