Two Years Marks Since The Death Of Steve Jobs. See Backstage Incredible Secrets Of The First iPhone!

Spicy details were disclosed about iPhone development from January 2007, San Francisco. When approaching one of the most important presentations of the history of Apple. But one of the chief engineers at Apple, Andy Grignon, was not thrilled that he must come to the conference. So begins the story of Fred Vogelstein about some of the more poignant moments in the iPhone history.

Grignon was the division chief in charge of radio communications of the future iPhone. Devotes two and half years of the project, and now he was sure to be heading towards a disaster. Jobs was already 5 days rehearsing in secret for presentation and each time the iPhone had problems: intrerupted calls, lose internet connection, simply freeze or shut down.

The pressure was as high for other project managers whose development cost over 150 million dollars. “The pressure to meet the deadlines imposed by Steve Jobs was so big that you get to argue on every question. Engineers gave their resignation, then return to work after a few days of sleep” says Tony Fadell, one of the former Apple vice presidents.

But the 90-minute speech of Jobs went smoothly and made ??history. Finally, Gringon was quite a cheerful grace for the successful presentation and a bottle of whiskey.

And above all, Steve Jobs had to be convinced to embrace the iPhone project and the talks begun in 2001, when Apple introduced the iPod. The reason was simple: people wouldn’t wished to carry 2-3 gadgets for music, phone or reading emails, when you could use a single device. But the challenge was enormous. Bosses thought that Apple iPhone will be as easy to build as a Macintosh. Jobs wanted instead to implement a modified version of OS X.

Nobody had tried until then to squeeze a giant operating system in a mobile, and the new system would have to be ten times smaller. In addition, no one had a capacitive screen on a phone, even though the technology exists since the early 60s. In 2003, however, a team of engineers from Apple has discovered how to use the multitouch technology on a tablet.

The first prototype that Jobs played on, occupies a quarter of the office and many heads divisions doubted that it will shrink to the size of a phone. At the same time, they knew better than to tell “no” to Jobs. So in 2006, developed a second prototype, much closer to Apple boss claims.

iPhone project was so complex that sometimes threatens the entire company. The best Apple engineers had been drawn into the project, and other Apple products began to have delays. “If the iPhone would have been a failure, Apple was likely to have no other product ready for long”, says Job Rubinstein, head hardware at the time.