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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] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Capitalism incentivizes producing value

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It incentivises producing a perceived value. So faking value works just as well as providing real value

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

Not sure why you are down voted. Marx argues that the secret to value is human labor, and capitalists exploit labor to capture surplus value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Progress requires human labor. It doesn't matter what government or ideology you use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think some folks, especially of the marxist POV, argue that labor is the work that you sell to make money. Progress and government require work. It's not necessarily labor.