{"id":16895,"date":"2017-01-11T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16895"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:22:06","slug":"tony-fadells-stories-about-the-first-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/tony-fadells-stories-about-the-first-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Fadell&rsquo;s Stories About the First iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38552241\">Dave Lee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38552241\"><p>Apple had many of the best brains in the business, but until that point it hadn&rsquo;t ever made a phone of its own.<\/p><p>And so Fadell planned a fact-finding world tour to meet experts and check out research labs of telecoms experts.<\/p><p>It began with one manufacturer in Malmo, Sweden - a trip which ended with all of their bags, notes and equipment being stolen from their cars while they were inside a restaurant having dinner.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>&ldquo;Until you can agree with us you can&rsquo;t come back in this room,&rdquo; Fadell recalled Jobs saying to pro-keyboarders. &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t want to be on the team, don&rsquo;t be on the team.&rdquo;\nThe disagreements soon stopped.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>&ldquo;I thought, &lsquo;We must make this work with a stylus&rsquo;,&rdquo; Fadell remembered.\n&rdquo;Because we knew it was right, even though Steve was making a philosophical point initially saying you can just use your finger. We knew there will come a day when you&rsquo;re going to need a stylus.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We did it without his knowledge, it was behind the scenes. He would&rsquo;ve ripped my head off.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Lee: Apple had many of the best brains in the business, but until that point it hadn&rsquo;t ever made a phone of its own.And so Fadell planned a fact-finding world tour to meet experts and check out research labs of telecoms experts.It began with one manufacturer in Malmo, Sweden - a trip which ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1271,295,31,85,423,173],"class_list":["post-16895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-pencil","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-keyboard","tag-stevejobs"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16896,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16895\/revisions\/16896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}