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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 9 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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[–] serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.com 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every tech demo ever is fake, with the possible exception of the original Cybertruck demo, but I suspect even that one just wasn’t faked very well.

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This, all they look for is a poc to prove that its possible then they can sell that to fund the actual development

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Apple had already done 30 years of development (starting with ARM and NeXT) when he did this keynote, and the product shipped a few months later. It might have been barely ready for the demo - but it wasn't that far off.