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It's a strange article in that it focuses so much on how the Lily promotional video was not actually an accurate representation of how the prototype Lily worked
by grecy 9y ago
It's a strange article in that it focuses so much on how the Lily promotional video was not actually an accurate representation of how the prototype Lily worked at that time, but more of a "wish list" or demo of what it will work like when it's finished.
We all know when Steve introduced the iPhone it was a complete fake - the signal bars were faked, the engineers were sweating that it would crash, Steve had to do things in precisely the correct order, etc.[1]
Of course, it's a prototype, not the final product!
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2& http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-sa...
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- yardie 9y agoNo, Steve introduced a prototype. The screen was real, the digitizer was real, and so was the very buggy OS. A fake would have been a reskinned Nokia in an iPhone body.
- elmar 9y agoI found this opnion very interesting someone close to the company said. Balaresque and Bradlow were not polished enough to be able to secure further funding. “I felt sorry for them,” In the end the failure was not been polished enough for later stage VC, just reminds me of the fake it till you make it mantra.