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> I have learned to be suspicious of the Steve Jobs pretender look through the years; it’s not a complete tell, but it should make you suspicious. Totally agre
by herbertl 3y ago
> I have learned to be suspicious of the Steve Jobs pretender look through the years; it’s not a complete tell, but it should make you suspicious.
Totally agree with your comment, there are several images like this and that note should've been in one of the captions.
On a separate note, even Steve faked the 2007 iPhone demo [1]. It couldn't play entire songs or videos without crashing. It constantly crashed unless tasks were performed in a specific sequence. The team programmed the phone to display five bars, and brought in a portable cell tower, for the demo.
When the iPhone came out, all these bugs had been smoothed over, and the news of the demo didn't break until 2013. I guess that's the difference—people were using the iPhone, loving the screen and interface, and tolerating the flaws (no copy and paste!).
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s...
- ekms 3y agoI assume when people talk about Jobs bulshitting they’re more so referencing the earlier Lisa or NeXT eras
- meragrin_ 3y agoI guess you're one of the few people who know how to hold a phone.
- ekms 3y ago?
- wruza 3y agoGP refers to the controversy around how you should hold an iphone so it doesn't lose reception. First few versions had a receiving system which could be easily interfered with by not holding it right (shorting notches on the outer rim) if you were used to hold a phone at the top, i.e. palm at your ear (vs cheek). Jobs suggested to not do that.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI suspect that you are replying to a different comment than mine, but I remember the iPhone 1.0 demo, and smelling strong bovine excrement. But they were able to release something that ended up changing the world. It’s always a bit jarring to watch pre-smartphone movies and TV shows. These things have become ubiquitous. I liked the “flick-pen,” from Geostorm, though.
- ncr100 3y agoThat's right, my phone rarely crashes when I'm playing a song or video. I think it was a fantastic demo. Crashing Happened a lot in demos back then, nowadays it's not so common.
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoOT but what a parochial NYT article: > The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. There are a thousand people every day who get the train from my little town into London. 80 miles. 125mph. Someone else does the driving. There's wifi and a power point and a refreshment trolley that will sell you a coffee. Watch a movie, read a book, browse HN or Reddit or whatever. "Nicest commutes anywhere"? Least terrible car journeys in the US, perhaps.