“‘Steve had expressly told me it was totally top secret. He said he was going to fire anyone who tells the world. I was sweating bullets.’ Tony Fadell was pondering just how he was going to explain to Steve Jobs that he’d lost the prototype of what would become the most successful technology product of all time, the Apple iPhone which launched 10 years ago on Monday,” Dave Lee reports for BBC News.
“He’d just got off a plane, felt his pockets, and… nothing,” Lee reports. “‘I was walking through every scenario thinking about what could happen,” he told me. None of them ended well.’ After two hours, relief – thanks to the efforts of a search party that didn’t know what it was trying to find. ‘It fell out of my pocket and it was lodged in between the seats!'”
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MacDailyNews Take: It took two hours for someone to think to look in the crack between the plane seats?
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I can’t help but notice that the iPhone was introduced at a Mac event. Remember the Mac?
Yeah sure. The Mac was a really handy well done computer until it languished due to executive disinterest (& not consumer interest). Thankfully my PC workstation took up the slack back in 2017. Sure it’s not as good but at least I have the form I need to do my pro work. Whatever happened to Apple anyway?
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Pepperidge Farm remembers
Mac Event?
You mean hunger killing quarter pounder party at golden arches?
What’s a Mac?
“It took two hours for someone to think to look in the crack between the plane seats?”
Well MDN you have to take into consideration the types of people (and I use the term very loosely) that were looking for the prototype, and that these were citizens from a terrorist nation that have been using the “aim for Bin and hit Saddam” guidance system to find Bin Laden who at the time was still on the loose, not in Iraq where they were terrorizing with an invasion on some real true weapons of mass destruction. Or maybe he was in Afghanistan, better start some war there just in case, cause that’s what terrorist organizations do.
So where was Waldo, uh Bin hiding? We know now that it was in Pakistan, the nation’s so called ally. With allies like that that country needs all the imaginary enemies you can get.
But at the time this was unknown, so obviously putting that into perspective make two hours, is about right, about 1 hour 55 minutes to, pick a scapegoat, set up defamation propaganda and draw up invasion plans. It was a good thing that someone took that extra 5 minutes to actually look under the seat.