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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] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah I think the industry learned from Bill Gates' flub when demoing Win98.

For those too young, it bluescreened and crashed on a giant projector screen in front of thousands of people when they plugged in a scanner to demonstrate "plug and play".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was an early beta of Win95, very iconic. He famously closed the laptop, smiled, and said "I guess that's why we're not shipping yet."

And yes, that's exactly the kind of situation you want to avoid on stage.

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

Right. You definitely want to avoid that because Bill Gates is a billionaire and Windows still dominates the market. Looks like Microsoft paid a heavy price for that transparency.

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

Even more worth a laugh is the Surface presentation where both the presentation model and the backup froze within a minute of each other.