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Technology@lemmy.world•Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phonesbykatze@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
11 daysThe rumor is that the whole iPhone concept was actually the idea of one unnamed engineer at apple who worked on it in his spare time; apparently he had the idea at the same time as the folks at IG, probably it was kind of a natural evolution of the earlier devices. (You have to consider that the thing that made the iPhone such a success, the “app store”, was not available from the beginning. The first devices had no official way of adding any software, but people quickly found hacks and added a debian-like package management to it. From there the first custom applications spawned and only then Apple understood the potential of opening the platform to third-party developers.)
Regarding the engineer, apparently he was fired by his supervisor for spending time on this “stupid” idea; but back in the day, Apple had the policy that everyone who was fired had to report to Jobs one last time, and then he showed him what he was working on and Jobs took it from there.
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phonesbykatze@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
12 daysWe’ve had phones since 2014.
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If you talk about smartphones, the first one - the LG Prada - released in 2007.
That can easily accomplished by running each game in its own WINEPREFIX.


Apparently someone who is too stupid to understand the difference between “a blog” and “a blog post”.