A few months before the release of the very first iPhone in June 2007, Steve Jobs had met several dozen journalists to offer them a first overview of this smartphone which was about to revolutionize the world.
Roger Cheng de Cnet.com attended this event which he shared in memory of the visionary. En effet, demain marquera le 10eanniversaire de la mort de Steve Jobs décédé le 5 octobre 2011 à l’âge de 56 ans.Since then, the Apple site has a page in its homage entitled Remembering Steve.More than a million people have already shared their memories and thoughts there.
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Steve Jobs had thrown the iPhone to prove his sustainability
After the official presentation of the first iPhone in January 2007, Steve Jobs visited the offices of The Wall Street Journal in New York where Roger Cheng worked.Journalists took the opportunity to ask him several questions about this device.One of them in particular wondered about the sustainability of the iPhone.Steve Jobs replied by throwing the iPhone through the room.
Roger Cheng remembers that "the phone, unharmed, survived.The floor covered with carpet was probably the saving grace ”.Then, several prototypes were distributed to journalists so that they can take charge of the iPhone and its revolutionary capacitive touch screen.
As Roger Cheng said, "imagine how disastrous it would have been if this iPhone had broken down or died in front of so many journalists".Nevertheless, Steve Jobs had perfectly calculated the risks of this unexpected gesture which left dozens of amazed journalists.
Roger Cheng concluded that: "forever is engraved in my mind the image of jobs in this medium -sized meeting room, standing in front of a group of journalists sitting around a table in the shape of a U, taking a calculated risk forWe impress - the quintessence of the way he directed Apple ".The iPhone came out a few months later by meeting enormous success and opening the way to what has become the iPhone today, 14 years later.
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Source: Cnet.com
