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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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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 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.

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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This isn't news, but yes - people forget that Steve Jobs was just as dodgy and a bit unhinged as Elon Musk now is.

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[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

wow and there I was demonstrating my senior project robot, sober, fixing network connectivity issue (we didn't test in the lecture hall... oops) and successfully applying multiple code fixes on the fly while the audience and all my professors looked on

But these guys are the real experts

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