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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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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Software development. I’ve been on both sides of the equation I’m describing above, many times. Looking back, a large part of the achievements I’ve been fortunate to be part of started with someone who said “we can totally do it” while we, the team, were mouthing “how the fuck are we going to do that?!”.

But you find a way, usually. That’s all I’m saying.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In other words, you've been the shitty boss like I had who would make unrealistic promises to clients and then pretend it's all okay you made everyone work all weekend because hey, you bought them pizza and they NEED your Jobs-like genius to achieve their best 🙄

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Wow, assume much?