▲ 721 ▼ 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 2 years ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world 171 comments fedilink hide all child comments • 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.
[–] itsraining@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Reminds me of this: http://toastycode.com/besavers/buynow.html permalink fedilink source