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#18453 10-Jan-2008 21:21

The short version and the original version. I recommend reading both, in this order.

FTA:

At one point, Jobs met with some executives from Verizon, who promptly turned him down

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#104093 10-Jan-2008 21:26

Same link?

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#104100 10-Jan-2008 21:43

Click on the Wired link in the short version.

Hype, hype, hype, hype....

I is a kollege stoodent. Bee nice.

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#104101 10-Jan-2008 21:44

nzbnw: Same link?

Ooops, thanks. Fixed.

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#104213 11-Jan-2008 12:57

I like this bit:

For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the most stressful of their careers. Screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways. Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their sleep. A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed whacks with an aluminum bat to free her.

Interesting reading though, the lengths they went to to keep things secret, the focus and money spent on testing etc.

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#105013 15-Jan-2008 16:38

At one point, Jobs met with some executives from Verizon, who promptly turned him down

OOOPS!

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