Smart Phones, Apple & Magic: a Genesis story
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A tiny Silicon Valley team designs and ships a personal communicator in 1995 (years before the iPhone), builds its own interpreted language Telescript, and tries to embed the web in ROM — but misses timing: digital cellular and the internet aren’t ready, so the product fails commercially. The company goes public, produces engineers who later build Android, iOS and devices that power 98% of smartphones, and leaves a culture of all‑nighters, bunk beds and hard lessons about vision, timing and managerial burnout.
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- 8:09The Information Society
- 22:24Chronology
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- 55:53The Role of a Leader
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