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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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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beeper stopped charging customers for the time Apple broke their app.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So each time Apple breaks it, they have to stop charging customers? Sounds like a real winning business plan to lose money each time you need to code up a new solution to the original problem. /s

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 11 points 1 year ago

That shows they actually care about billing their users fairly. They lost some money but gained some trust, just like how Apple would've lost some money if they didn't fake their demo

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You sound fun