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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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[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's amazing they were able to pull that off

[–] M137@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Agreed that it's pretty cool. The vast majority of on-stage demos like this are faked, but it's not usually because they aren't long enough into development that they just can't do it any other way. And as long as what they show is what you get, which is the case here, I think it's fine.