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Steve Jobs can’t get iPhone 4 to work

Posted by Stephen Pate on June 7, 2010 0 Comments

Steve Jobs with iPhone 4G

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Never demo but if you must demo, never demo

Steve Jobs carefully orchestrated sell of the new iPhone 4 hit a snag when FaceTime, the new video calling app, failed. He couldn’t get the Wi-Fi connection.

Now he knows what it’s like to be on AT&T in the US or Rogers in Canada trying to make iPhone calls on 3G networks. I had to get in my car and drive 5 blocks to make a call. Somehow, receiving calls just didn’t work out with that scenario.

And as we said in the computer biz, never demo.

Stephen Pate

Publisher of NJN Network, Stephen has covered pop, jazz, folk and rock music since 1964, and spent 2 decades as the founder of serial IT startups. He has a great wife, 10 children, a growing number of grandchildren and is passionate about music and disability advocacy.

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