Probably few people know that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), was the first company to implement Wi-Fi technology in a commercial product, it being now not a luxury, as in 1999, but a necessity. Steve Jobs presented to the whole world the first product with Wi-Fi in the form of an iBook, which you can see below, this being the first commercial product with this technology implemented.
Lucent had been developing Wi-Fi technology for 10 years before it was implemented in the iBook, but it was only when Steve Job met with Lucent engineers that the decision was made to implement it. Apple, of course, asked to buy the Wi-Fi chip at a price of 50 dollars, lower than the manufacturing price, and after a lot of work, in tandem with Lucent engineers, he managed to carry out his plan.
How Steve Jobs brought Wi-Fi to the Whole World
Steve Jobs was fascinated by Wi-Fi technology because it allowed very fast wireless data transfer, but also very fast browsing on the Internet at very high speed. Apple then launched its first router with Wi-Fi technology, to facilitate its use in people's homes, and thus one of the most important technologies reached the hands of consumers.
"Cees & his team had been working for more than a decade on introducing WLAN technology to the masses, but without luck. After plenty of attempts, Apple finally came to Lucent and said they wanted to meet [...] "Apple was looking for something different and new for their iBook laptop product, and Steve was very enamored by the idea of wireless connectivity for laptops. Looking back, it seems to me he had probably made up his mind even before the meeting," says Cees Links."
Steve Jobs was always known as a man who knew how to make presentations for the launch of important products, and here you see him showing how important technology is. Unfortunately, Apple lost a lot of its "charm" after the disappearance of Steve Jobs, and the conferences no longer have the same "shine", the products having the same problems.
