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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 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-s...

I 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.

That'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.

OT 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.

I assume when people talk about Jobs bulshitting they’re more so referencing the earlier Lisa or NeXT eras

I guess you're one of the few people who know how to hold a phone.

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GP 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.

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