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I'm an electrical engineer and know people who were on the first iPhone team. I think it was about as close to 0 to 1 as you get in a big company like that. I
by blackguardx 10y ago
I'm an electrical engineer and know people who were on the first iPhone team. I think it was about as close to 0 to 1 as you get in a big company like that.
I worked for a major RF test and measurement company when the first iPhone came out and everyone was blown away that a company could design and tool up production for a cell phone without tipping anyone off in the industry.
- ravitation 10y agoCompare Apple, a consumer electronics company, building a phone to Google, an ad tech company, building a self driving car. One seems to leverage the core competencies of an organization better than the other... One seems closer to starting from 0...
- Locke1689 10y agoThat's just because you don't understand Google. It was a ML company going from building ML for the internet to building ML for a car.
- weaksauce 10y agoI mean, google is not quite going from 0 to 1 there. it's a machine learning problem and google has some of the brightest machine learning people out there already working on search.
- blackguardx 10y agoGoogle hired the team that won the Darpa Grand Challenge.