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5. 10. 2013 - 11:57

Today's Webtip: Early days of the iPhone

Fred Vogelstein tells the tale of the iPhone demo.

Do you remember when the iPhone was first demo'ed?

Being a long time apple user, and having jumped on the smartphone bandwagon when it was still a wooden cart, I was anxiously awaiting the announcement. That meant hanging out on a bunch of gadget sites following their coverage of the event.

Jobs gave good presentation, but there was a whole lot of effort that went on behind the scenes to make it work.

You can read about some of the backstory to the iPhone announcement in 2007 at www.nytimes.com