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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why Steve Jobs Wanted a Glass Screen on the iPhone
The original decision was plastic. Glass can break. You know, a people drop em all the time. So we don't want to have a fragile device because you're gong to be using even more than a music player,. And your goin o in your head and putting in your pocket an missus and all that tuff. But then when we started to do it, and then steve changed the frame of reference of the question, or of the result, if we designed it with plastic and it's in their pocket all the time, and it gets scratched by coins, lightly scratched, or by keys, or something like that, that is a design problem. We need to
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