San Francisco Chronicle

Riding the wave of iPhone hype

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Demonstrating why he is a technology guru vs. the rest of us mere mortals, Steve Nelson, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, managed to find himself queried by the San Francisco Chronicle about today's Apple iPhone launch. "What do you think of it Steve?" asked Chronicle reporter Jessica Guynn. To which he replied, "When I first saw the television ads, I thought, 'Wow, this really is the future of the phone. It makes any other phone seem like it could have been owned by Alexander Graham Bell...' " What Steve was referring to was the still standard 1-9 keypad interface that has been around since rotary dial. Unfortunately, Jessica missed Steve's musings about the alternative historical fiction moment when the first words uttered by Steve Jobs into an iPhone were, "Mr. Wozniak! - Come here!" You can read the entire article on SF Gate here.
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