114: The iPhone Story
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The Long-Nast of Technology
The idea of some technologies or develop decades later than they put into use Right? I think we don't even talk about technology is like any idea Ideas could bubble up. This is an example of a long-nosed technology that takes a long time to get to market So this is what happened with the iPhone The first multi-touch phone Remember this happened within two and a half year window Uh one of the uh Apple execs Steve was really upset because the plastic had scratches on it And then the exec goes to Steve Well Steve we have a glass port of types That don't scratch But it doesn't survive the one meter drop test so that's literally as I just imagined they dropped the phone
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