Former Apple Engineer Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Original iPhone Introduction

[TWSS37]

You don't see the difference between a little smoke and mirrors at a product demo, to demonstrate the features and behaviors that will actually be in the shipping product, versus a hack that inflates performances numbers of products that are actually shipped and in customer's hands?

Really?

You don't see the difference between lies that you deem as acceptable versus what a lie actually is?

Really?

 

[elistan]

You don't see the difference between lies that you deem as acceptable versus what a lie actually is?

Really?

What lie? Steve showed us a new product, called an iPhone, to be sold later that summer, that would do X, Y and Z. Later that summer, the released a new product, called an iPhone, that did X, Y, and Z.

Sounds like he did an amazing job of telling the truth and keeping his promises.

 

[Heltik]

"The iPhone project was so complex that it occasionally threatened to derail the entire corporation. Many top engineers in the company were being sucked into the project, forcing slowdowns in the timetables of other work. Had the iPhone been a dud or not gotten off the ground at all, Apple would have had no other big products ready to announce for a long time. And worse, according to a top executive on the project, the company’s leading engineers, frustrated by failure, would have left Apple."

This really serves to highlight how utterly morally reprehensible Google, Samsung, et al's alleged theft of IP has been.