It is true that iPhone not only changed the world of mobile telephony, but it was much more the threshold for the mobility boom. Greg Christie there was, therefore, chief engineer of the Apple team who designed the iPhones, back to 2005. Recently, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, revealed some interesting details about the device's early history.
Christie, who owns the patent for the "slide to unlock" feature, describes the original iPhone group as "shockingly small in number".
So, as Christie and the team were working on ideas about the style and look of the new device, the impatient Steve Jobs gave them 2 weeks to find the answer, otherwise you would assign the project to another group. The procedure αυτή οδήγησε στο αρχικό concept του iPhοne, το οποίο ήταν μια σύνθεση ενός touchscreen mobile και iPod, χωρίς το κλασικό πληκτρολόγιο.
Although some parts of this story were already known by a New York Times article in October of 2013, the new WSJ article reveals some other hidden aspects of the process and interesting details.
Among the highlights is also included Jobs's determination to keep the development of the device sealing the secret. So he put his employees to encrypt the first photos of iPhonne, while he was also obsessed with details. A typical example of his obsession with this was the fact that he intervened and changed it projection of email for the iPhone shortly before its launch. But it is the details that finally shape the story.
