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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

• 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.

binboupan ,

I think it is normal since the software wasnt ready for production yet; at work we also have forks and forks of forks just to demo new features for people. At the end he did deliver a working product unlike many game devs these days.

anarchy79 ,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Fragile prototypes? And then he decided not to do anything about it and sell them as is?

I will never forgive the world for buying into his overhyped inferior product and get hailed as a genius for it.

Bring back buttons, and screens that don’t shatter from being sneezed on.

lando55 ,

Yeah, and what’s up with these transistors? I want vacuum tubes in my iPhone!

DuckOverload ,

Buttons? Ew.

I have consistently been Luddish about moves like this (removign physical keyboard, eliminating phone jack, even the tablet form factor in general) but I think I was mostly wrong, and monimizing hardware features in favor of software seems to improve user experience.

ArcaneSlime ,

I only disagree with the removal of 3.5mm and microSD ports, and removable batteries. Imo the ports are both 100% needed, and the battery would be nice though I understand waterproofing is important. I’m fine with screens and no physical keys, though I would like a camera cover switch for at least one of the two cameras if possible, like laptops are starting to have.

Buffaloaf ,

Like what blackberry did?

Showroom7561 ,

Still more honest than some game trailers. 😂

KnowledgeableNip ,

“You’ll cum within 40 seconds by using this iPhone.”

NegativeInf ,

Is… Is that something people want?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t want to cum within 40 seconds every time you use your phone?

Are you some kind of prude?

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

I would switch to apple if that was a feature 🤷‍♂️ just saying

DJKayDawg ,

yes

azerial ,

Can confirm. Worked at BioWare for ten years. They did a presentation at some big release event and they had the pc off stage with a pan of ice and a fan directly blowing on the open pc. Mmmhm it totally won’t melt your pc! They eventually fixed it, but video game announcement trailers are total smoke and mirrors typically.

itsraining ,

Reminds me of this: toastycode.com/besavers/buynow.html

Rakonat ,

Find a demo that Apple/Jobs didn’t fake. He was infamous for this shit.

kromem , (edited )

Most top level shit is.

While it’s a mistake to fake what you can’t build (I have cautionary tales about folks that did that), faking what you can and will build in order to build momentum to launch is not as uncommon as people might think.

aceshigh ,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes. She really really believed it would be built. She just needed more time and money. Sometimes it’s a challenge to accept a failure, and move on.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Hey… at least the ruse worked…

https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ezgif.com-optimize-2-1.gif

Something_Complex ,

That was on him for going out the script. He could have made a cult like Apple.

Instead he did whatever the hell this is

4z01235 ,

Somehow it still has a cult like Apple

kameecoding ,

i think Tesla’s and Elons cult is gonna be much different, he has succesfully alienated most of the so called “woke liberal” crowd with his fascists free speech absolutist sex offender shit, and then right wingers wont purchase his shit because they deny climate change and want their gas guzzlers, so he is stuck with the niche, crypto fun tech bros to worship him and his shitty “cars”

And he elegantly timef his shit to alienate his main purchase demographics to be at the time when the big automakers start coming out with their own offerings

Tesla will be a charging provider at best in a decade if they survive all the class action lawsuits over his fake claims that is

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I love this bumper sticker:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34996ec7-0f83-4d71-9a42-6f020186339c.png

joewilliams007 ,
@joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org avatar

always has been.. do people only notice it when main main stream media covers it?

anarchy79 ,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

That is the one single example when a product was unveiled on stage and the presenter perfectly expressed my feelings on it.

MaxPower ,
@MaxPower@feddit.de avatar

I didn’t like him either but not for such shenanigans. Any entrepreneur with half a brain would do the same in this situation and then nevertheless try to deliver a sound product after the presentation.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

“Demo magic”, it’s everywhere. Always has been, always will be.

snek ,
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

And then when you have issues with this kind of stuff when your own managers do it, they’ll just turn to you and say, “you don’t understand how business works”

You’re right, yes, business is a field made for liars.

wewbull ,

Had this on Friday.

  • Boss: Have we hit the milestone?
  • Me: No, our performance is low and we don’t know why? We need to analyse it.
  • Boss: …but we’ve done what we said we’d do. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up over some metric. I think we’ve should say we’ve made it.

Net result is that we’ve pushed a major problem into the next phase without giving ourselves more time to do anything about it. …and people wonder why projects are “late” at the last moment.

snek ,
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

This is a success because we said so.

KISSmyOS ,

“The Mythical Man-Month” is a book written in the 70s based on experiences from software development in the 60s, and project managers still cling to the myths about project planning it debunked conclusively.

superduperenigma ,

Hey, those executives worked very hard on their coloring sheets in business school!

nutsack ,

honestly selling a product based on a prototype is really common

EtherWhack ,
@EtherWhack@lemmy.world avatar

Same with using a custom, presentation-only UI.

They wanted to show what it could do in a perfect setting, so they would have connected it to a remote system in the back. You never trust tech to work flawlessly for a presentation as the risk is too high.

danielfgom ,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

This is old news. We all know this. These were prototypes and still buggy but Steve knew he had to present it first, ASAP, to the public to earn and keep the excitement.

It was a gamble they worked. People were super exited and for months the anticipation built resulting in a strong launch with massive sales.

Even to this day, it’s that presentation they keeps the fans buying.

cm0002 ,

I wonder where we’d be if the iPhone was a flop. Android was well in development, but as an independent company, the success of the iPhone is what prompted Google to buy Android a year later

Black_Gulaman ,
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Symbian to this day. It would be hell.

Railison ,

Phone I remember using Symbian on my N95. It was really pushed to the limits on that phone and it showed

danielbln ,

Android’s interface was all BlackBerry in terms of UI too. The full touch control came after iPhones launch.

Xatolos ,
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    Wispy2891 ,

    Yes but the first android prototype was a blackberry clone with horizontal tiny screen and all physical keyboard. The iPhone changed everything even if on paper was worse (no apps, ultra closed, expensive on contract)

    For example only for the specs the HTC universal was better in every single part and it launched two years earlier. Bigger screen, higher resolution, full keyboard, lots of buttons, stylus, 3g modem, expandable memory, replaceable battery, an operating system that allowed to install any app. But then the user experience…

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    Wispy2891 ,

    I don’t really think so. Google took another two years to release the HTC dream and at release was shipped in beta. If they were already developing a “touch first” handset it wouldn’t have been that long. They shipped the device without an on screen keyboard! It came only later with updates

    And the start menù of win mobile 6.5 with the nice hexagons was just a nice menu, the rest of the os still required stylus and tiny buttons on those terrible resistive touch screens

    SpezBroughtMeHere ,

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    Jrockwar ,

    Oh no, stop the presses! They missed a C! ⚠️ Their whole argument is invalid!

    samus7070 ,

    People laughed their assess off at Bill Gates’s epic failed demo of usb on windows 95. Live on stage he plugged in a peripheral and the machine blue screened. No way in hell would Jobs have taken that risk.

    laverabe ,

    was this the one? (Windows 98) vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=yeUyxjLhAxU

    msbeta1421 ,

    Slow down your thinking and consider this: why would any practical person fully develop something without getting market feedback and understanding demand?

    This is by the book “Preto-typing”. You can frame it as lying, but the reality is Apple had faith that all of the “faked” features in the demonstration would be fully developed before launch.

    IBM did something similar before voice-to-text existed. They faked the technology during market research and discovered that people didn’t enjoy speaking to their computer as much as initially thought. It showed them that they could better invest that money elsewhere.

    It would make zero sense and be a foolish use of capital to fully develop a product that complex and expensive without understanding market preferences.

    This is a non-story, rage-bait headline.

    darkpanda ,

    It’s also been a known thing ever since the demo occurred. This isn’t news, it’s been a known thing for basically the last 15 years.

    sunbeam60 ,

    99.5% of all on-stage demos have fake elements. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone.

    Isthisreddit ,

    The problem in all this for me, is that examples like Jobs are pointed to as examples of why this should be done (your entire post basically), and then we have examples like Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos who basically couldn’t deliver the technology and kept the “lie” going.

    How does one know they can eventually deliver? In your post, you basically assume the problem is solvable with capital. With some promised tech (like Theranos), at what point does “there is a necessary need to gauge the publics interest in a product to evaluate if capital needs to be invested in this space” turn into fraud if the product turns out to be unattainable? (Think cancer cures, limb regeneration, etc)

    hperrin ,

    And look where he is now. Dead. Lesson learned.

    intensely_human ,

    cheaters never live forever

    14th_cylon ,

    idiots who refuse cancer treatment in favor of “alternative medicine” don’t live forever…

    also, everyone else, really, forever is quite a long time.

    wildcardology ,

    That’s where all of us are headed. What’s the lesson?

    kakes ,

    Not me - I’m learning from Steve’s mistake.

    Black_Gulaman ,
    @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Fake it till you make it?

    SirQuackTheDuck ,

    The final goal in life: the eternal slumber.

    jimbo ,

    But are we dead right now, like Steve is? No.

    wildcardology ,

    Just give it time.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    What’s the lesson?

    You can’t take it with you.

    Also, if you have cancer, go to a doctor.

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

    A fruitarian diet won’t help you against pancreatic cancer.

    Or, in other words, you can’t fight P.C. with apples.

    Taser ,

    I haven’t snorted that loud in public for quite a while

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
    @dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

    Dead people should be shot at birth

    Grass ,

    So basically that scammer woman that wanted to be Steve jobs did a better job at it that we had been led to believe?

    hperrin ,

    Nah, cause she made the mistake of ripping off rich people. That’s illegal.

    Copernican ,

    Not even close. Jobs had a proof of concept that actually worked.

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