And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ Great, but long read!!

[Ken Sp.]

For me this was well worth the time to read!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazi...wanted=all&_r=2&

[Lew Zealand]

Thx, just packaged as a PDF and reading offline on my, er…



iPhone

[RAMd®d]

Wow!

That was a fascinating read!

Thanks for the link!

[Paul F.]

Some great stuff...
Not done yet...

“I and Rubén Caballero” — Apple’s antenna expert — “had to go up to the boardroom and explain to Steve and Ive that you cannot put radio waves through metal,” says Phil Kearney, an engineer who left Apple in 2008. “And it was not an easy explanation. Most of the designers are artists. The last science class they took was in eighth grade. But they have a lot of power at Apple. So they ask, ‘Why can’t we just make a little seam for the radio waves to escape through?’ And you have to explain to them why you just can’t.”

[space-time]

This made me LOL

As early as 2003, a handful of Apple engineers had figured out how to put multitouch technology in a tablet. “The story was that Steve wanted a device that he could use to read e-mail while on the toilet — that was the extent of the product spec,” says Joshua Strickon, one of the earliest engineers on that project.

[GGD]

space-time wrote:
This made me LOL

As early as 2003, a handful of Apple engineers had figured out how to put multitouch technology in a tablet. “The story was that Steve wanted a device that he could use to read e-mail while on the toilet — that was the extent of the product spec,” says Joshua Strickon, one of the earliest engineers on that project.

I think at the iPad intro Steve mentioned that work began on the iPad before the iPhone. So I think the iPad is really the device designed for the toilet.

Interesting that he never demoed that killer feature for either product.

[RAMd®d]

Interesting that he never demoed that killer feature for either product.

Well, he did demo the 'Pad while sitting in a chair.

Maybe that was his version of an inside joke.

I'm glad he left it as a "hidden feature".

[Lew Zealand]

RAMd®d wrote:
Interesting that he never demoed that killer feature for either product.

Well, he did demo the 'Pad while sitting in a chair.

Maybe that was his version of an inside joke.

I'm glad he left it as a "hidden feature".

LOL, I agree 100%.

[The UnDoug]

The link is taking me to a nytimes login page. :-(

[space-time]

The UnDoug wrote:
The link is taking me to a nytimes login page. :-(

Don't eat their cookies!!!