Cozdatel Safari for the iPhone Steve Jobs and his work at Apple
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Francisco Tolmaski was a mere 20-year-old college student, when in 2006, Apple hired him to develop a mobile version of Safari. Imagine how difficult it was a young guy working on something so important, along with Steve Jobs, known for his harsh temper.
"When I wanted to get to Apple, Mr. Jobs was on vacation and I had to wait for him. After his return, he is very suspicious look at me. Think about it, some 20-year-old wants to get a super secret work. It looks strange. When I learned what to do, then I dropped his hands. It seemed an impossible task
Secrecy was really high. "Iron" and the software developed different teams who have not even seen each other. Naturally, I got second.
In the beginning, we were divided into teams of 5 people, which was very uncomfortable. This is our way. For example, one of our programmer is constantly working on the keyboard. This is because he was "lucky". Jobs did not like the prototype keyboards and he made something like a hacker marathon, where our partner won "
Mobile Safari.
"My main task was to adapt the Safari mobile browser so that sites on the smartphone screen looked like on the desktop. Jobs always said that I should do. He was adamant, demanding perfection. Almost every visit to his office ended with the words "Come back and make it so that it worked like magic"
In the end I did it. Instead of navigating and zooming with the mouse, we have introduced multi-touch gestures. As you can see, it is convenient "
Cards
"That's all funny story. I had to work a little bit and over the cards, but it is not so important. The bottom line is that Jobs decided to embed a map in the iPhone just a few weeks before the presentation. One of the fives worked on them almost around the clock to the conference "
We have had many funny incidents while working. The design team worked another Steve. When he was asked by the name of Jobs thought that come to him and constantly raged. At one of the meetings he got tired, and then he said, "so, Steve, from now your name is Margaret." And so it was until the end of the project iPhone! "
In late 2007, Francisco Tolmanski left Apple and founded his own company, which develops games using the built-in mobile device accelerometer and gyroscope. After some time, they bought Motorola for $ 20 million.
Via New York Times