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Tony Fadell on early iPhone prototypes - On The Verge

2012-04-29
you also worked on the iphone yes the first three generations so you were there for the inception the creation of the original iphone absolutely and how did that so how did that go like how where did that come from was that we did Steve you'll run into the engineers I don't know where he would run into did he run anywhere probably not but he did walk in somewhere and say well I want asked yeah it was like I want to make this thing and here's what it looks like what was it again it was there was all kinds of different Jess stations of it actually did three different types of iphones there was a ipod + phone and then there was the iphone and then there was the next generation iphone then that's the one that actually shipped did he have a keyboard uh none of them that was there ever there was never a virtual keyboard yeah but like there was never a version with recording never really it was it was it even discussed uh well it was definitely discussed it was it was a heated topic really yeah absolutely whether people that were for it and people who were against it absolutely you for it or against it uh I had known a lot about touch screens and given my 15 years of the time and so I was skeptical I wanted to try it first so you really got hardware get guy you were like let's do a hardware keyboard no I was just I want to try it I wanted to work because it made sense that you wanted a full screen you didn't just want a little keyboard what the biggest problem with the the ipod + phone was that we had a little screen and we had this hardware wheel and we were oh so you literally like we were making an ipod and i love in making calls exactly that seems like it would be kind of not intuitive well you could make the old dial oh yeah no I like a perfect recreation of a phone that hasn't been made in 50 years sometimes you have to try things to throw it away
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