wraggster
March 26th, 2014, 21:04
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/4e8bc8d26fa6c95ef0987fcbbafb3ba/applephone.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/25/apple-engineer-iphone-interview/)Offering a rare interview in the run-up to another legal fray between Samsung and Apple, the senior engineer behind the iPhone has explained where it all started, part of Apple's plan to communicate how groundbreaking the original iPhone was.Talking to the WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579461783150723874?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB1000 1424052702303949704579461783150723874.html), Greg Christie explained how the secret project, Purple, brought the iPhone to life. At some point, the former Apple boss told him straight: the team had two weeks, or he would assign the project elsewhere. "Steve had pretty much had it... He wanted bigger ideas and bigger concepts." In the end, the "shockingly small" team had outlined a touchscreen phone with swipe-to-unlock, no physical keyboard and all the music-playing features of the company's iPod series. They ran early software tests on a plastic touchscreen, hooked up to a dated desktop Mac [seen above] -- an effort to emulate a low-powered mobile processor.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/25/apple-engineer-iphone-interview/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/25/apple-engineer-iphone-interview/