Why Steve Jobs Hated the Idea of the iPhone

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[@lawrencefrost9063]

I see you are on a Walter Isaacson binge reading tour. I am also reading all his books at the moment.

[@davidmacphee3549]

I can hardly wait for You to earn a Million Subs! You are truly a Self made Person, Cindy!

[@davidmacphee3549]

This reminds me of when? 1979? The year 'Sony Walkman was released, I guess. Sometime between 1980 and 1983, I met the Top Boss (President?) of Sony Canada, while responding to an Alarm call at the Sony warehouse. I don't know his name but Sony is an interesting company. 'Trinitron' comes to mind. (Cindy, you are a wonderful researcher. Your work is fantabulous! A "Can do it All", One person Team!) ... Uh .... Still? Wow! Anyway, He told me a Big secret about the Walkman project that really surprized me! It's secret, so I can't say. "Have a Nice Day"

[@timothykisembo8378]

Warren Buffett

[@derek-64]

No

[@lawrencefrost9063]

"Can you shut up and let me teach you some science" That is a great line!

[@vedantmungre1702]

Yes

[@rippoking8297]

😂

[@kmsnow6292]

Jobs shouldn’t deserve the credit because he changed his mind. The credit belongs to those who worked in secret and were brave enough, and insisting enough, to convince him.

[@patrickadu-amankwah1660]

Yes, and also cell phones did not suck, Apple innovated in an already popular market. BlackBerry was the craze back then

[@henriksundt7148]

Well, by being reluctant he forced them to develop the ideas and the product further, until they were good enough to pass his standards. So in a way he deserves a lot of credit. The high standard demanded from Jobs is a key factor in Apple's success in general.

[@DigSamurai]

Only someone who's never built a company would say that. The iPhone wouldn't be a reality if it wasn't for Jobs. He's the one that kicked everyone's ass to make it work, not the least of which was Corning Glass.

[@edjack1993]

Exactly. Jobs Fans struggle with that reality. But that’s fine.

[@VezVezar]

You don’t get it, jobs was the boss, he has the money. This is important. Him changing his mind and willing to spend hundreds of millions on an idea is a big deal. Sure the engineers did the actual work, but there will always be an adventurous investor whos willing to put lots money on the line in order to make it work. To me, this is more ballsy than put in time and elbow grease.

[@MaxKito2]

So it turns out that who really had a vision were all those guys working secretly to create the iPhone. Love this story. I personally never liked Steve’s arrogance and being credited with stuff he didn’t even envision as his own, because of his temperament and people afraid of him, all he had was a salesman ambition. Credit where credit is due. No wonder Steve left Tim Cooking as CEO for the same greedy mentality. Anyway, good this video shines truth of the true visionaries and creators.

[@Allenz2205]

Eh, its not all that black and white. Apple had tons of incredible engineers when Jobs wasn't there, from 1985-1996. But it made Apple go almost bankrupt. Then Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, with most of the same engineers and team, and from 1997-2011 you saw Apple go from Bankrupt to the richest company in the world

[@wifine1951]

Steve at the end of the day was the Face of the company and solely responsible if anything went to shit. The CEO is someone everyone can point at to if everything goes to hell.

[@lucas839]

So an analogy will be talking to a cult leader

[@blacbraun]

At least Jobs was willing to develop new products. How many ideas has Tim Cook shot down over the past 12 years? The only new product of significance Apple has released in his entire tenure was the Apple Watch and that was already deep in development when he took over.

[@jonfreeman9682]

The finger works company they bought pioneered tough screens and have been forgotten in history.

[@dunar1005]

Wow, all it needed was just a group of highly professional engineers and scientists and just like that he changed his mind, what a great man 🙄

[@jonfreeman9682]

Not that great. He stood on the shoulders of other genius and took the credit.

[@zacnewtro9952]

​@@jonfreeman9682The commenter did everything to convey irony, and you still managed to miss It.

[@Rich.psychopath]

😅😅😅😅​@@zacnewtro9952

[@ThePowerBunny]

This is why Apple was so successful in the early years. Even though Jobs was a tough boss, and a hardass, he made his employees do the legwork to prove to him - a stand-in for the pig-headed consumer - why the product would work. And because his company did the legwork to prove the idea could work and be implemented into a great product that people needed, Apple and the reputation of Steve Jobs skyrocketed. Tim Cook could take a page out of his book.

[@jonfreeman9682]

He drove his staff hard and was a bit of a tyrant. But that's what passion is all about. But there's a whole team of people with great ideas and they had to convince Steve who is smart enough to know when he's wrong.

[@MegaLokopo]

Do more research, he held apple back. Apple can't exist today without continued support from microsoft, google, and samsung. If jobs wasn't in charge as long as was, apple would be so much more successful than they are today, they wouldn't have to rely on their competitors to exist.

[@2thedudestdude]

You're delusional

[@aisopia4693]

@@MegaLokopo Collaborations and partnerships amongst competitors are literally everywhere, such as how you may be using a pc or mac to read my comment from a google's product ie youtube. Ergo by your logic, Microsoft and apple should develop their own native video sharing platform since More reliance= Less successful, right? In a simpler term, I should stop outsourcing my shelter, food, healthcare etc etc since I would somehow be more successful getting all that shit from myself, right?

[@MegaLokopo]

@@aisopia4693 Collaborations and partnerships are different than what microsoft, samsung, and google do to keep apple alive. Of the four companies, apple is the only one that would fail over night if the other three disappeared. But if one of those three was the last one left, they would be more successful than ever and would thrive.

[@selvoselvo1]

How many times have I listened to an argument where at the end one party said - you are right, now I see things from a different angle, it has changed me. It never happened. It's always an ego competition.

[@Mike_Davidson]

“That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.” - Steve Jobs 😂😂😂📱

[@lukebrinsmead]

As Johny Ive said “This is going to change everything”. It’s really smart people (working in a team) who dream of changing the world who actually do.

[@kennedyumeigbo1173]

Wow it feels great to be part of the first 10 viewers. I watch all your videos and never miss a single one. Keep up the great work Cindy!

[@jcboy7050]

Sadly, they dont even care to respond to you. Like steve jobs.

[@BoltRM]

Jobs was against people developing apps for the iPhone. Only a handful of large developers pre-approved by Apple should develop apps. People then began "jailbreaking" the phones so other apps could be used. Jailbreaking was so popular, Jobs was convinced to create an official app store to regain control. It turned out to be be a golden goose + led to the popularity of the iPhone & later iPad.

[@TysonGibby]

LOVE your mini-docs. Crazy to learn that Steve Jobs was vehemently against the iPhone. A note, in the development world, the Apple App Store is not considered to be an "open" platform. It is considered to be a walled or fenced platform. Open would suggest that anyone can build and deploy an app to it. This is not the case. Android has the closest thing to an open platform amongst the major phone operating systems and that is only with side-loading out side of the Android App Store.

[@jonfreeman9682]

But he was smart enough to change his mind. Steve Ballmer was still laughing at iPhone believing in keyboards.

[@marloeleven]

as always, loved your story telling

[@diglitt12]

He always didn’t think that an idea that would become popular was good at first

[@jonfreeman9682]

Well he thought instantly the mouse and graphical OS was the future when he saw it at Xerox park. He liked the iPod touch wheel instantly as well but when he saw the iPhone touchscreen it was a Eureka moment.

[@hwcanotabot]

Steve Jobs was willing to change his mind, if a compelling argument against his idea was presented. He was only reverent to an idea, if it was the best in the room, not necessarily his. The fact is with the iPhone, Apple first changed the world around it, then changed its mind. The iPhone changed the industry’s way of thinking in numerous areas, some of which are- 1. The UI 2. The business model 3. Relationship with carriers 4. The touch screen Only when the the above things were done, the iPhone was introduced. It had to be revolutionary to disrupt an industry that at the time was basically in a coma.

[@jfbeam]

Palm / Handspring tried to do this before Apple. But the cellular market was a very closed, myopic world. Phones were designed by / to the specs of the various carriers. And because of the lack of a unifying standard, each network had to design its own phones. Palm tried with (Treo), but never had the power to dictate terms to any carrier. Apple, however, was a giant; if you say no to Apple, they'll go to your competitor. The iPod, as much of a mess as they were before the iPod Touch (aka iPhone), was HUGE. People would buy it just because it has the Apple logo on it! Palm also had sizable loyalty, but no one would let them build the phone they wanted to build. (Nokia famously laughed at the idea of taking a picture and "texting" it to someone.)

[@hwcanotabot]

@@jfbeam Spot on (although I did like the white iPod Classics). Funnily enough Steve Jobs on stage numerous times praised palm, specifically its concept of docking. Palm did try a version of the App Store but didn’t nearly make it as seamless as App Store. Apple standing its ground has led to perfection curation of their products’ user experience. When the iTunes Store first started I remember reading that Apple was pretty fixed on 99c song offerings and stood their ground on that as well, even when they weren’t as big as they were few years later. They basically dictated to the music industry at time as well, because they knew what the listeners (customers) wanted, and record labels at the time had no connection with the actual consumers who were the listeners, just their distribution channels.

[@rdyer8764]

I'm not trying to be rude regarding past videos, but I think this new one is back to what I consider to be Newsthink quality. Many of your recent videos, while somewhat interesting, lacked the ability to really hold my interest. I would rate many of them at C+. This one is back to what I would call A quality. Thanks for what you do.

[@Newsthink]

Thanks for the feedback! Story ideas are greatly appreciated too.

[@nixl3518]

You’re too eager to believe any bullshit you read on the web!

[@Faraz-cse]

2:49 I had never seen this Nokia phone till today 😅

[@Techformative557]

Thats my phone in the video. Its the 3300b, its the US version of the 3300. Its quite rare and obscure.

[@carlosrengifo4993]

The best video I've seen so far about the iphone creation process. Great job!

[@jc-tu6pg]

after watching this, i now realize that steve jobs should get zero credit for developing the iphone. why does he get all the credit for it?

[@jonfreeman9682]

Because he is the master chef who brought all the ingredients together. There were other talented people at BlackBerry, Palm, Microsoft, Samsung LG who were all trying to make the next generation phone but their CEO couldn't bring all the great ideas together to make it sing. The same ideas were there like an app store, camera but it was a mess. Steve Jobs greatest contribution was recognizing touch was the future and the app store would make iPhone explode.

[@Oystein87]

The iPhone was mostly just a copy of the competition anyway😂 It even lacked alot of features other smartphones (and even dumbphones) had for years. Litteraly the ONLY thing iPhone 1 had was the combination of multitouch AND glass in the same device. But we already had both in seperate devices. The rest was just things we had for years

[@mikatu]

@@Oystein87 there wasn't even smartphones before the iphone. Unless you consider the blackberry a smartphone. You have no clue what you are talking about. Apple created the entire market for smartphones, for ipods and for tablets. Recently they created the apple watch which was the only thing that caused fear in the watches industry. After the apple watch the industry lost a big part of its revenue.

[@Oystein87]

@@mikatu Uhm, yes there was😅 Blackberry? Really?🤣 No, we had tons of smartphones before the iPhone dude.. The iPhone was really late to the game actually. I was old enough to own smartphones before the iPhone so I know this from experience. And you can't ignore all the documented facts either so.. The first smartphone was invented back in 1994😉 Just Google "first smartphone"... Apple did NOT create the intire market for smartphones in anyvway🤣 Are you high? Maybe learn some basic history before commenting....😉 And the rest of your comment is also just full of faults so yeah.. You better learn the basic history, dude👍 Or maybe actually watch this video you are commenting in?

[@MegaLokopo]

@@mikatu People who buy apple watches aren't people who buy watches, and certainly not the expensive watches. There were several smartphones before the iphone, and that doesn't just include blackberrys. You really have no clue what you are talking about. Apple has never invented anything. They have never made competitive products, they simply make popular products. All they do is copy other's technology and market it as new. Then all of the apple sheep buy it because it makes them feel special. Even today the iphone is years behind other brands phones in so many ways.

[@michaelsegal3558]

Is this the same Corning as in Corningware who use to make those white platters with the lids and the little blue flowers on the sides?

[@Newsthink]

Yes Corning owns corningware

[@michaelsegal3558]

@@Newsthink that’s what I thought and they also own Pyrex and Corelle plates

[@mikekeenanphd]

@@michaelsegal3558 They no longer own those brands. Corning no longer makes consumer products (only industrial products).

[@vedantmungre1702]

I've read the book "The One Device" and it's an awesome book. But could you do research on whether the Vision Pro thing could change the world like the iPhone. Because with the Vision Pro, Apple is trying to reinvent how we interact with "Spatial computers" or "Mixed reality headsets".

[@MegaLokopo]

That isn't their goal, if it was they wouldn't be making a headset. They would be making the input device. It is much too slow to input data into the vision pro and most vr headsets in general. It is going to be a long time before a world changing event happens. And as it always has been before it won't be because of apple. They will simply pretend they invented something and market it to their customers as new and innovative or maybe courageous, and then all of the apple fan boys will buy the new version every year waiting for it to actually be good.

[@stephanieherman2861]

2001 many people were looking for some portable device that could connect to the internet over the mobile network and do computer stuff like playing video, music and browsing the internet. the idea really was not very new when this phone came out years later

[@lawrencefrost9063]

I see you are on a Walter Isaacson binge reading tour. I am also reading all his books at the moment.

[@ayormevenamede3214]

Great piece right there Certainly a great leadership skill to acquire from Steve. Thank you

[@tech_forreal]

2:54 Oooh NOKIA... 😂😂😂 What where you guys thinking?

[@jessicaregina1956]

Too much money and complacency, this isnt even the worse phone nokia outed, they had a lipstick phone and several phones where u had to alter your texting style😂

[@tech_forreal]

@@jessicaregina1956 Jeeeezzz that's crazy

[@elijahsdad]

Not only a great video, but a very interesting and compelling story. Great job!

[@GregAntal]

0:21 What do they mean by "pocket protector crowd"? Is the pocket protector a personality type in this context? What kind of?

[@jfbeam]

Euphemism for "nerd". In other words, it wouldn't appeal to the masses. Jobs wasn't a fan of PDAs either. PDAs had a lot of appeal, but tended to be more of a "business" toy. (i.e. not something the average house wife would use.) That is, until a phone was built into them. I didn't see many Palm Pilots or Handspring Visors, but I saw a fair number of Treo's. And then iPhones just explode.

[@vdivonoficial5263]

1:09 I can't believe Steve smashed his phone when his calls dropped just like me

[@camcappe353]

So we owe it to those who risked getting yelled at, humiliated and fired maybe even black listed.

[@sheilatorio6811]

This is why it takes a team. Jobs was the salesman and because he was in the forefront he got the credit. The engineers behind him couldn’t do whet Jobs did. Apple needed the whole team.

[@mikhelBrown]

Cindy, you did again! Good job! 👍🏽💯

[@tl9150]

Thanks for the book and article recommendations. Great video!

[@RespecterAlexander]

Intellectual flexibility at its finest!

[@kp6215]

Team work with new ideas because all of a sudden a light bulb goes off in the brain that can happen any time when you let the hard working brain is at rest to allow play.

[@israel3538]

So fascinating omg. Imagine if it was never made

[@dumbasgenius7227]

OMG how incredible of a genius Steve is! He hated the idea of an effective iPod with the feature of being able to call, calling it stupid, when confronted again and again would refuse to even budge, and only was able to change his mind after many many people planned and tested all in secret, and only THEN did he finally consider it. And even then he refused to add the feature to his product that would ultimately bring apple 50% of their revenue! What a GENIUS! What a SCIENTIFIC THINKER! Do you hear yourself? 'Scientific thinkers' do not scold an idea on first time hearing it. Scientific thinkers don't force people to work on an idea in secret. If he was a scientific thinker, he would encourage his employees to spend some of their time on this kind of thing, and then when it show itself to be compelling then they would consider going all in. Wtf!

[@aisopia4693]

try running a company, you would be amazed at how many expensive "leapfrog" ideas everyone has and how limited your resources is, especially if you are trying to make a profit. Your way of operation would only work if you assume your shareholders as some sort of cash cow that is ignorant to their finance

[@jfbeam]

@@aisopia4693 Go study the history of Apple, esp. the Jobs years. The Lisa was built to his idiotic requirements. It was insanely expensive, difficult to make, and well on the way to bankrupt the company. And then at NeXT, his obsession with building a perfect cube tanked NeXT. He did the same stupid at Apple with the G4 cube. The iPhone 4's antennagate was the result of his artistic requirements.

[@SalivatingSteve]

3:56 Computers, music players, and cell phones converged... That sounds a lot like how Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007 with his "3 products in 1 device" spiel.

[@Pavlentiy-xi1zt]

I used Sony Ericsson P1 same time first iPhone was presented. And it had touchscreen, which I used with my fingers. Also it was possible to install java apps and they even gave gps for navigation. And there was a lot of similar to iphone devices at the same time. What this guys invented exactly?

[@homelessbag]

the sony p1 phone had resistive touch screen which required a stylus, not a high quality capacitive touch screen...those are not good, which is why no companies make them like that anymore. regardless if you still think that phone is equal is fine, but nobody who really discusses the tech industry says steve "invented" the iphone. that is of course engineers and software devs. they do give steve a lot of credit that he deserves for the marketing and business side. this is undeniable. so if the claim that he didn't "invent" the iphone, then you win, but it's not a good point. his impact on the culture and industry is a far greater claim though. he started NeXT in 1985 or so and created a really advanced OS and focused on object oriented programming. this is the base of the iphone software stack and the mac OS stack. it's a huge accomplishment and it's something that is worth exploring rather than arguing the silly stuff like "my sony p1 did the same thing" (which is verifiably false).

[@Pavlentiy-xi1zt]

@@homelessbag I used with my finger. There was big 3 “buttons” in the bottom of the screen, easy to press. But I just used my finger for the whole interface. And even maps. And messaging (ICQ), same way I do it in whatsap now. Tried stylus one or two times only. Resistive doesn’t support multitouch, not finger-touch.

[@Cap683]

When I heard of the iPhone, I thought it was a really dumb concept. I mean -- An iPod that you can make calls on??

[@shivanandvp]

I think the idea was minimalism - instead of carrying lots of different things, reduce them to a small form factor and declutter.

[@michaelsegal3558]

It’s ironic that Jobs didn’t want the iPhone and yet the iPod has been discontinued and iPhone lives on

[@carlosr1176]

He definitely knew where he didn’t want to go with technology. He just didn’t know where the future was until he saw someone else’s creation and could see how it could change the world if marketed correctly. He was great at grabbing an opportunity when it presented itself.

[@natesnautical]

Very objective - well done!

[@kodaph]

Well in this video, I realized Jobs , did not "Think Different" at the iPhone idea at first. 😅

[@skywalkerjediknight2024]

Dont matters they were only the first ones who made the scream smart. That don't mean their phones are the best Through the years, many good smartphones came out. But the ones are the ones holding the winning trophy Is samsung and google phone

[@featurephone3374]

LG Prada the first multitouch of phone in the world

[@vincentdain9233]

a very good video and story telling..

[@jessicaregina1956]

George lucas on jar jar Bink's: this will change everything

[@jayman94fly]

That’s crazy, Everyone credits jobs for the iPhone.

[@SpareiPhone-n6t]

The iPhone happed not because of Steve Jobs but in spite of Steve Jobs this guy was great at telling people their ideas were garbage and all that did was make them try 10 times harder at making their dreams a reality so maybe it was jobs that gave people the motivation to make something great or maybe something great would have been made even sooner if jobs wasn’t Constantly telling them their ideas wouldn’t work

[@jonfreeman9682]

Haha ha good one. You may be right on that if iPhone didn't happen it was going to happen eventually but with another company. Touch and app store was the future but the iPhone got there first. Other companies like BlackBerry and Google were working on it but Apple got there first.

[@nz7677]

It should be noted that Apple did try to sell the Newton which was a massive flop. The stigma is most likely what made Apple have a distaste for trying to make the iPhone.

[@jfbeam]

The Newton wasn't a Jobs creation. And it wasn't that much of a flop. It was a bit before it's time. And handwriting recognition was always going to be crap - esp. with the processing power of the era. It's a neat gadget, but it was rather expensive, and really didn't do a very good job of filling any niche. Palm was pretty much the goto for any PDA. Sure, the screen is small, but it'll fit in a shirt or jacket pocket. No model of the Newton would fit in any pocket. (even many hoodies)

[@lynxlecher9547]

All this time I gave him credit for envisioning it and it turns out he not only didn't, but resisted the idea. Just like Musk, a clueless mediocre man who didn't deserve his success.

[@daniels.2720]

Correction: "clueless, mediocre, Wealthy man..."

[@sa34w]

Steve talked and worked with corning, he understood and took critical decisions that made the product what it is. yeah him and musk are more important than most people like you. Their products changed the way people look at phones and EVs respectively. liberals shouldn't speak about great people who actually are useful to the world while they are sucking a company dry being stuck in middle management without any use for anyone.

[@brianburgess3231]

marketing pirate.. that's what made that wealth Daniel

[@alluringgrace413]

Reality is it was the engineers and designers, every day employees passionate about their work who made it possible.

[@lynxlecher9547]

@@daniels.2720 this is a science and technology channel where they celebrate remarkable people. There's nothing remarkable about a wealthy man in a scientific or technological context.

[@ericmoeller3634]

Jobs gets mad and throws his cell phone when it drops his calls but apple made a iphone that if you held it wrong it would drop your calls

[@stephaniecorcoran8890]

Very interesting I watched his 2005 commencement speech where he said that you shouldn't live your life being worried about losing. He's portrayed as Progressive and risk-taking meanwhile he detested progressing the iPod into something better until he was threatened with losing his corner of the market. He didn't want to make the phone because he was afraid that the service companies would sandbag the technology, Steve wanted that authority to sandbag his own technology. He projects this image of people having free Minds while selling them a device that is a prison for it

[@AyushSingh-be2nm]

Me too read it in that book.

[@japhyvansan]

Great piece

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

It's exactly was my thoughts when we got a rumor that next iPod will be integrated with a phone. Why do we need a phone there where we had almost perfect audio player. Anyway, people enjoy iPhone now.

[@itsROMPERS...]

I love how people lavish so much admiration on Jobs when the consequences of his invention are turning out to be dire and completely culture-, personality-, and even soul-destroying. We have entire generations emotionally enslaved and even destroyed by iPhones. Instead of interacting with each other as they used to, people in groups now sit silently staring into screens, and even after many hours, they can't look away. People now sit next to each other in bed oblivious of one another, sometimes watching videos of strangers having sex instead of having it themselves. Future critics may agree that Jobs was the single worst thing to happen to humanity in the 21st century, or maybe EVER. This makes the opium crisis in China look like a joke, because it is not self-limiting like opium (you can only smoke so much before you pass out), and there is infinite supply. And while you can cut off drugs, you can't cut off phones. It's like if the opium was also the sole source of nutrition. Ultimately Jobs showed himself to be so "brilliant" that he died young of a completely curable disease. Everyone else who has the same thing lives. This is the man we idolize. Now it's Elon Musk. God we're stupid.

[@Ralfscho]

My boss often tells me that I should use my phone more often 🤣. Mostly it's the other way around people get told to spent less time staring at their phone. I just don't share the same obsession with those things. I own an iPhone, but rarely have it on or with me. It is somewhere and 2 or 3 times a day I take a brief look at it. But I have to admit that it is a fine piece of innovation.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Different generation. Young folks are glued to it.

[@whatarefriends4]

So it wasn’t even his idea. You gotta admire the man. Didn’t do shit took all the credit

[@jonfreeman9682]

That's a little oversimplified. He recognized touch was the future and bought finger works company. That's infinitely more than he paid Xerox park for stealing their mouse and graphics interface idea.

[@PrinceMalachi7]

He also thought the idea of a phone that was 5 in was ridiculous lol. Now Apple makes 6-in plus phones

[@slickrick1856]

I don’t know why people are shocked. Even the max took a strong team

[@MrD215]

This changes everything I knew about Steve Jobs. He was actually an idiot who was in the way.

[@jonfreeman9682]

He wasn't the nicest guy. His tirade is legendary. There's two Steve Jobs movie but the one with Ashton Kutcher really captured his personality.

[@talkfacts-i7]

so all this time people only knew he was a smart fish, but it turned out he was a dumb crab

[@AshwinThomasM]

"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings." - Tesla

[@cjxgraphics]

Jobs couldn’t program, design, or create, but he was the one thing this world loves. A ruthless businessman and salesman.

[@Mike__G]

I’m pretty sure the phenomenal success of the Blackberry had something to do with Jobs changing his mind. But since he was “the inventor of the smart phone” was never likely to admit that.

[@BryDisney]

I don't know this seems very contradictory to every other iPhone history video out there.... Are we sure this is all true?

[@mayda4th]

ola medwedew @7:41

[@eduardoaguiar117]

Why should Jobs get the credits in the end? I mean, of course he had the last word sometimes. But those who worked on the iphone are whom deserve the credit and even a prize; they changed an entire industry.

[@bsd107]

The “glass” part of the story is B.S. overall. AT&T had to give the iPhone an exception to its 1m drop test - the ONLY phone it carried that had that exception.

[@lorenipsum93]

That’s why I don’t know why everyone thinks Steve Jobs was such a visionary

[@BLAKEEATS1988]

It's not that jobs held back the team, the team knew he had ridiculously hight standards and if it weren't for that, the iphone couldn't have been built because the team got inspired to create something that jobs would blow his mind with. So jobs technically is responsible for iPhone being born. It could have been just a Nokia again but it was 100x better at the time.

[@davidlloyd1526]

There is no evidence that this happened. Just evidence that people wanted to sell a book (and promote their KZbin channel). After the release of the iPod Touch, it was obvious to everyone that Apple was going to release a phone version of it.

[@TamasKop]

i am always wondering, what happened to apple? from being a creative and innovative company, nowadays they are selling us the same phones again and again...

[@L8rCloud]

All because Steve Jobs was willing to change his mind…. WOW So the people who worked so hard to bring him around to their idea AND all the work they put into realising it, irrelevant…?? WOW!

[@happyatheists9361]

I don't like iOS and apple, but Steve era of apple is mind blowing ! unlike tim lie ripoff era, FOR the Environment 🤣🤣 (removig things/creating problem and solving with another thing Ex:3.5 jack and selling AirPods )

[@LeiaThePrincess1]

Everyone needs to be convinced to buy something we are able to live without. I myself would probably think the same if I were on his place back then. It is always risky to selk something new like iPhone was. Remember 2007. Social media did not have such popularity. I was interested in the first iPhone technicaly, but I did not want to own one. Didn't actually need it in my everyday life.

[@andrewgrandfield7214]

7:41 Medvedev, lol

[@mathewchen6471]

OMG this is an infomercial!

[@jfbeam]

The ROKR wasn't an innovation at all. It was a stock Motorola phone on which they put an iTunes app. And then crippled it to 100 songs so as to not step on iPod sales. It's a real surprise Apple is the success it is, _despite it's own stupidity._

[@slob5041]

A great mind can change.

[@iceburgslim2000]

Imagine apple start charging for iOS updates.. just how Microsoft charged those who wanted to upgrade Windows 95 to Windows 98. It wasn’t free.

[@DukeNukem2020]

Finding out that Jobs might of had high functioning autism really tells a lot about why he acted the way he did.

[@gimbur6921]

He found out later. He was wrong.

[@jcboy7050]

Funny thing is...jobs said they didnt have a committee...obviously, they had..jobs is overrated....its not like he's not like any corporate bosses...he just nods or shakes his head with idead and takes credit for stuff he didnt come up with. Not to discredit his early days, though.

[@EricKristof-b6d]

You must understand that the human brain is good, but it is not able to calculate all the moves in advance, it cannot see the complete picture. Unlike artificial intelligence and a quantum computer. If you know what I mean, then welcome to the team

[@mikejohnson8391]

I hate it because iPads and iPhones need special screen protectors to minimize fingerprints and smudges.

[@homelessbag]

iphone screen protectors are not to minimize fingerprints and smudges...they are to reduce the chance/risk of your screen cracking due to drop damage...nobody buys screen protectors to protect against fingerprints

[@bazoggy]

Let’s not forget the iPod Touch that was out before the iPhone

[@FelineTechie]

no it wasn’t. the iPod touch was released in September 2007, the iPhone was released in June 2007

[@Mc007Queen]

It's funny he didn't want to put music player in a phone ... that's as bad as Kodak inventing the digital camera and didn't want to ruin his their profits with the 35 mm film lol like people have never going come up with the same idea

[@anonamos_]

This isn’t true. They made a larger iPhone prototype and he loved the idea but he told the engineer and design team to make it smaller. Steve was an innovator. He wasn’t concerned with the money and sales.

[@groove9tube]

You have a very soothing voice. If you made meditation videos, I would watch them.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Mamma

[@BruceStephan]

I wish Apple still made the iPod Touch . I prefer it to iPhones . Android phones are my preference .

[@Brittany.Anderson]

The real reason it is selling so well is that it is not all that great. They are extremely overpriced as well. I've had more Samsung phones than iPhones and had zero issues I have family members who have so many issues with their phones (iPhones) than what I have had.

[@oleksandrkalietnik982]

Good story bro 😂

[@janprittinen9745]

Jani called him :-)

[@Donnirononon]

I hate it when people assign the successes of other engineers and developers to some overglorified being as it is their religion or something. Especially with Elon Musk people act like he is doing everything himself instead of honoring the great teams behind these successes.

[@jeffreywoodin8549]

The video seems to portray Steve as the anti-iPhone guy. It's my understanding Steve would argue an argument sometimes just to see how sure the other person believed in what they were arguing for. It seems to have been a good business strategy. ;) Also, the reason Steve wanted glass on the iPhone instead of plastic was because if plastic got scratched or broke the customer would blame Apple for a poorly made product, but if the customer scratched the glass or broke it they couldn't.

[@rickgauden]

Love your voice

[@mathewchen6471]

You forgot a key feature that the original iPhone was missing. Cut and paste. It didn’t come for another 3 years via IOS

[@Cybfreak99]

If they are so innovative why don't they have many apps than play store😂😂

[@Cybfreak99]

Is Steve jobs ghost preventing them from incorporating more apps oh wait it's the greed for cash😂😂

[@11.15.M]

How come no one talks about the logo…? … The object which , is and symbol of the first sun???

[@RobertWater-w1g]

Wow .iphone steve jobs seemed to take all the credit.This is weird