AnActOfCreationDec 16, 2023

Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software

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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 - programming.dev

• 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.

Show threadSapphironZADec 16, 2023
You got to say he was a master bullshitter, but he had some miracle workers engineers that made it happen.
Show threadsunbeam60Dec 16, 2023
In my career, I’ve learnt the hard way that every crowning achievement starts with a bullshitter being cursed by a bunch of engineers - the very same engineers who years later laud the bullshitter as the person with the tenacity to drive them to achieve greatness.
Show threadJdW

That’s a load of bull. None of those nameless Apple engineers that really engineered all that Apple crap lauded Jobs, that was only media and sycophants like you.

I dare you to name one real life instance in “your career” when -named- engineers were happy with marketing bozo’s taking credit for their work and actual genius. You can’t as it never happened in the history of time.

The actual arrogance to suggest that those poor engineers should have been happy that someone was there to "teel them what to do. Wow. Just wow. Maybe leave your mom’s basement and stop sniffing the glue for a day this weekend…

Dec 17, 2023 at 12:11amWeb
Show threadGuy FleegmanDec 17, 2023

Ken Kocienda, the engineer who led the team that created the original iPhone keyboard and predictive text system, wrote a book titled “Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” So there’s at least one real engineer for you who speaks highly of Jobs.

They aren’t nameless. They write books and go on podcasts, their thoughts on Jobs are available to us. Plenty of them praise Jobs for driving them to do their best work.

Show threadsunbeam60Dec 17, 2023
Be careful, you’re stepping out of the “all bosses are capitalist, exploitative assholes and if you aren’t out in the field ploughing, you’ll be next against the wall in our cultural revolution”-zone that’s considered acceptable on Lemmy.
Show threadsunbeam60Dec 17, 2023
JdW clearly thought not very much of my thoughts and someone decided the name-calling warranted a removal. That said, I’ve responded to JdW with a direct message to share some examples I’ve been part of in my time. I do believe it’s a pattern you come to recognise after 20+ years in software development.