‘I Want a Glass Screen’
Posted by BNMC Engineering on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 @ 09:27 AM
About a month before the iPhone was to be released, Steve Jobs decided he wanted a glass screen to prevent scratches when the iPphone was carried in a pocket. Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher of the New York Times have written an excellent article about why Apple makes iPhones and iPads in China instead of the United States.
One of the key points is this:
Chinese factories are far more nimble than American factories.
The story Duhigg and Bradsher used to illustrate this will only add to the iPhone lore.
Just over a month before the first iPhone was to be released in 2007, the authors report, a frustrated Steve Jobs summoned his senior team. Read more: How the US lost out on Jobs