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 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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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.

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.

This is a success because we said so.

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

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