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Early XBox 360 demos were run on Mac Pro G5s
- sn0v 13y agoThis is sorta similar to the time Nokia faked the PureView video during the L920's launch (happened seven years later obviously). Also, I remember reading about some iPhone engineers that hardcoded the network signal indicator to show full strength during the launch of the first iPhone. Guess it's worth the risk since the media drops it after a while even if you do end up getting caught.
- joezydeco 13y agoFrom what I remember in that article[1], the baseband processor was actually crashing and rebooting in the days leading up to the launch. The "peg the signal bar at 5" trick was to hide that problem for the sake of the demonstration. That's shady, but for the sake of a marketing event I could understand why it was done. It's not as shady, however, as faking an entire product behind a curtain. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-sa...
- wmf 13y ago(2005)
- mehrdada 13y agoThis was publicly admitted by Bill Gates himself in his joint interview with Steve Jobs. Just pointing out that it's not been a secret act. It made practical sense because of the nature of the Xbox360 processor architecture (triple core PowerPC).