No one doubts that Apple would not be Apple if it had not launched the iPhone. What's more, it is likely that the smartphone you use, whatever the brand, may not be the same if Apple had not launched the iPhone. It is the most important device that the company has launched in its history and it is in the public domain that its creation and development was not easy at all , now an Apple former worker who participated in the Original iPhone project has spoken to the BBC's Witness program leaving multiple headlines.
Andy Grignon , senior project developer, participated in the creation of the original iPhone and has revealed how difficult it is was to work with all those geniuses, " each person was chosen because they were the best at something ". If you were not the best in your field, you were not part of this project.
The first iPhone was like an iPod
The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone market based on a premise that Apple still maintains: it should be easy to use. However, the beginnings were not encouraging at all since its design was based on that of an iPod , with its classic click wheel. For this reason Apple recruited a team with the best.
The first prototype was "awful to use," so Mr. Jobs and other Apple managers put together a team of his best workers to make the design easier to use. Each person was chosen because they were the best at something. They just wanted team A.
To get to the original iPhone from that first idea of the “iPod that made calls” Apple brought together a team made up of the best workers in each field. And something that seemed like a good idea at first turned into a real nightmare at times.
What happens is that, when you place a group of team A in a small room, you have clashes of egos everywhere, you have different opinions, everything goes wrong.
These tensions within the team increased over time and, curiously, reached their maximum boiling point just before the device was unveiled in the famous keynote of the original iPhone. We already know that the device that Steve Jobs presented was far from being a final version , what's more, Steve had several iPhone prototypes and each one was capable of carrying out certain tasks and in a certain order. Everything indicated that the presentation was going to go wrong, and that showed in the team.
A sarcastic comment was made, and it quickly turned into a screaming fight. That day I didn't feel excited but terrified, ”especially since it was going to be a live performance. At first it was really cool to be in rehearsals, but it quickly became really awkward.
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However, in the end everything went really well and the iPhone keynote was a complete success. in fact, many people rated it as "the best performance anyone has ever seen."
We finish the rest of the day drinking in the city. It was a mess, but it was great.
Of course, the team that created the iPhone, despite possible friction, was able to work together to create a spectacular device . A long time ago, a large part of this team met again to celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of the launch of the device, without a doubt one of the best teams that went through Apple.
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