iPhone 2G it was presented in 2007 by the Apple company and although at that time Steve Jobs amazed the whole world with the functions offered for the iPhone, the reality is that the presentation was not perfect. The first model of the iPhone was not then ready for presentation, and Steve Jobs and the Apple engineers struggled for 6 days to find a method to make it work perfectly.
Although the iPhone 2G looked like a perfect smartphone in the presentation, Steve Jobs could not take more than 1 or 2 actions without the iOS suddenly closing the applications. In this idea, Apple's engineers thought of a series of actions that must be carried out in a certain order so that everything works perfectly and the terminal does not freeze.
"Jobs rehearsed his presentation for six solid days, but at the final hour, the team still couldn't get the phone to behave through an entire run through. Sometimes it loses internet connection. Sometimes the calls wouldn't go through. Sometimes the phone just shuts down."
More precisely, Steve Jobs could present the various functions in the predefined order and everything worked without problems, but if instead of sending an email, he opened the Phone application, the iOS would freeze. The 6 days were extremely necessary for everything to go smoothly when the terminal was to be presented and Steve Jobs knew how to do everything almost perfectly.
"The engineers identified a "golden path," a specific set of demo actions that Jobs could perform in a specific order that afforded them the best chance of the phone making it through the presentation without a glitch. For example, Jobs could send an email and then surf the web, but if he reversed the order, the phone tended to crash."
In terms of connectivity, Apple engineers created a hidden Wi-Fi network that only Steve Jobs used to quickly load all data from applications. What's more, the AT&T mobile phone operator brought a mini cell phone tower into the room to ensure a strong signal, but those 2G iPhones were specially modified to permanently display that they had a strong GSM signal, even though they didn't.
"Engineers masked the wifi that Jobs would be using onstage so that audience members couldn't jump on the same signal. AT&T brought in a portable cell tower to make sure Jobs would have a strong signal when he made his demo phone call. Just to be on the safe side, the engineers hard-coded all the demo units to display five bars of cell strength, whether that happened to be true or not."
Regarding the lack of 3G connectivity, well, two main problems were the basis of its absence from the first model of the iPhone, released by Apple. To begin with, 3G modems did not exist when Apple started developing the first model of the iPhone, and until that moment, the implementation was difficult for those from Cupertino.
"This was also a purposeful hedge made by AT&T and Apple. They knew they weren't ready for the amount of bandwidth iPhone users would soon be hoovering up. The decision to stick with EDGE was a decision to play for time. If anything, the iPhone was launched onto AT&T's network about 18 months too early. The network couldn't handle the surge in data usage, as early iPhone users could grumblingly attest to, but these early adopters were intended to be sacrificial lambs until the infrastructure could catch up."
Moreover, those from AT&T did not want the first iPhone to have 3G connectivity, because its network would not have coped with the traffic. In this idea, Apple postponed the implementation of the support for a year, but mainly because the AT&T network was not ready to offer such a thing for customers around the world.
Further, everything is history, as you can see from the video clip below.
