iPhone origin story: 'Because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft'

how did you either find your way to the iPhone or how did the iPhone find its way to you ah the iPhone had a very circuitous route by itself I mean I at that point was running like Mac os10 tyrany to the releases at that point and uh and we've been working on a tablet project which has a really odd beginning uh it began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft that that is the actual origin of it and it wasn't Bill cuz he was starting to like Bill by this point uh uh it was a Laureen had a friend his so Steve's wife had a friend who's married to a guy who worked at Microsoft every time Steve had any social interaction that guy who'd come back just pissed off and I mean it wasn't it was not in like Microsoft's like you know it's not good for them that he ever saw him uh and he came back one time after seeing this guy and that guy was talking about how Microsoft had Sol's computing it solved like net uh like a laptop computer or they were going to do laptop or a tablet computing and they're gonna do with pens and he just like shoved in Steve's face the way they were going to like rule the world with their new tablets with their pens and Steve came in on Monday and and there's a set of expletives uh and and that was like let's show them how it's really done it's like the first thing is they're idiots you don't use a stylus you know it's cumbersome you lose it you're always like picking it up and putting it down you were born with ten styluses style eyes so like lets me use the ones that you don't to sell uh and and so it's like and it's this time touchscreens were resistive touch resistive requires you to sort of deform the screen you have to push it down so if you look at it like text and everything looks bad it's it's really tiring and your thing I said we need to do capacitive touch and asking multi-touch so we went to the hardware team and basically said like go do this and they started and the design team started building designs around this idea of multi-touch and it was pretty interesting I remember one of the first demos of this you walked into a room there's a giant giant table there's a projector on the ceiling and you can like you see a photo or something on on the table and you can move your finger around the table and it would move the photo super cool wouldn't fit in you know your your bathroom much less your pocket or your your you know bag it I guess we don't have it but the moment you saw that you knew this was the way to go like that was that was cool

Channel: CNET

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Keywords: John Markoff, Computer History Museum, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Origin Story, Scott Forstall, Tech Industry, CNET News Video, Apple

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Length: 3min 3sec (183 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2017