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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 1 year 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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[–] Dra@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is how all demos used to be. If the author/publisher of the ai prompt wasnt born less than 20 years ago they would know this

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to be?

Even as early as a few years ago, game demos at E3 were extremely controlled environments to avoid the journalist player crashing the game.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been at Gamescom once where we considered backup consoles and HDMI switches in the cable aisle to ensure we could rapidly switch onto a running game when the first instance crashed. Stability improved enough that it wasn’t required in the end but yeah, software for trade shows was always hot as hell.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a hard time even figuring out what the issue here is? it'd be one thing if the first iPhone shipped and was riddled with bugs and promised/demoed features weren't there, but that wasn't the case. Launched more or less rock solid, and iPhoneOS 1.0 (as it was called then) was far from the buggiest wide release.

[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. Am I supposed to be upset by this? Fuggen thing worked when it shipped. Are people angry that the marketing campaign started before every single engineering problem was solved? Why?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not upset at all. Because I understand. But maybe they are upset they promised something they didn't know they could deliver.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why?

Because they’ve never solved a complex problem, or accomplished anything that took the conscious coordination of multiple people.

[–] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That is easily the dumbest thing I’ve read today.

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Used to be? Why did I just demo a Potemkin village and get drunk in the middle of the week?