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I read this article a while back. Probably my favorite part: > Mike Lazaridis was at home on his treadmill and watching television when he first saw the Apple
by nchelluri 12y ago
I read this article a while back. Probably my favorite part:
> Mike Lazaridis was at home on his treadmill and watching television when he first saw the Apple iPhone in early 2007. There were a few things he didn't understand about the product. So, that summer, he pried one open to look inside and was shocked. It was like Apple had stuffed a Mac computer into a cellphone, he thought.
> To Mr. Lazaridis, a life-long tinkerer who had built an oscilloscope and computer while in high school, the iPhone was a device that broke all the rules. The operating system alone took up 700 megabytes of memory, and the device used two processors. The entire BlackBerry ran on one processor and used 32 MB. Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone had a fully Internet-capable browser. That meant it would strain the networks of wireless companies like AT&T Inc., something those carriers hadn't previously allowed. RIM by contrast used a rudimentary browser that limited data usage.
- bluedino 12y agoMr. Lazaridis let common sense stop him from building the iPhone. Much like the article where the author talks about his brain stopping him from creating YouTube. People are going to upload these massive video files and we're going to host them for free, and then they're going to sit and stream them all day? Malarky! http://prog21.dadgum.com/39.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/39.html