CultCast #290 - Camaraderie, chaos, and the original iPhone launch stories you’ve never heard

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🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Send us a text! This week: you’d never know it from Steve Job’s effortless keynote introduction, but the original iPhone was plagued with huge design and production issues that almost made Apple call it quits, right up until the day it was released! To commemorate the iPhone’s 10th anniversary, we’ll recount some of the incredible stories behind iPhone’s beleaguered early days, and celebrate how Apple pulled off one of the greatest device launches in history. ...

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0:00.0	We looked around and we noticed that almost everyone around us had phones and everyone was complaining about their phones and we thought could we build something better?
0:13.0	Apple had never done anything this massive before.
0:16.0	And that's when Bill turned Steve and said,
0:18.0	Steve, this is going to be bigger than the Mac.
0:20.0	And Steve said, I know.
0:22.0	Hello!
0:24.0	And welcome to the co-cast the best 30 plus.
0:28.0	I'm in an apple conversation you're going to hear all week,
0:31.0	oh yeah.
0:32.0	Turning me this week with his beard and tattered shorts.
0:36.0	He looks like he just escaped a tropical desert island.
0:40.0	Buster!
0:42.0	The guy kindness here.
0:43.0	And I did.
0:44.0	Like a sexy island.
0:47.0	Meh, you know.
0:48.0	Also with us, with the stumbling gates and incoherent mumbling,
0:52.0	he looks like he just escaped your local pub and he probably did.
0:57.0	Littic...
1:00.0	Yeah, hello that guy that got hit by a bus outside of a pub and he just went, he picked himself up?
1:06.7	Was this the video of you? No, it wasn't me. He just picked himself, he got thrown about 20 feet.
1:12.0	This runaway bus is coming down the hill and it got totally
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