You all probably know the story of the birth of Wi-Fi. The birth of Wi-Fi as a commercial product, however, one of the former executives of Lucent Technologies connects exclusively with the company's co-founder Apple by Steve Jobs. It's a story made for the history books.
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On April 20, 1998, company executives Apple and Lucent Technologies met in Cupertino to discuss a nascent revolutionary technology called Wireless LAN. The meeting was attended by Steve Jobs along with Rich McGinn and Cees Links of Lucent Technologies, and a dozen other experts. This meeting can be considered the birth of the "commercial" Wi-Fi standard as we know it today.
Cees Links, currently the general manager at Qorvo, and his team have worked for over a decade to bring WLAN technology to the masses, but without success. After countless attempts by management Applu offered to meet in Cupertino. "Apple he was looking for something different and new for his iBook, and Steve really liked the idea of wireless connectivity for laptops,” Links says, adding that in retrospect, he realizes that Jobs was clear before the actual meeting began.
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But it started at two o'clock in the afternoon without Steve. His delay was increasing and the atmosphere began to thicken. "Whenone"When he walked in, I was like, 'Who is this guy?' because he didn't introduce himself. And as a European, I'd never seen any pictures of him, and we weren't used to corporate executives presenting themselves as celebrities," recalls Links. Jobs then waxed poetic for ten minutes about how wireless LANs were the best thing on Earth, and made it clear that he cared about them. Apple it costs At the end, according to Cees, he stated that he wanted to pay $50 for the cards in question because he planned to sell them for $99. Despite the fact that reaching this price was not easy, a mutual agreement was reached.
The first Apple laptop with Wi-FioneThe activity was introduced to the world at the New York MacWorld conference on July 21, 1999. Jobs demonstrated wireless Internet by walking around the stage with a laptop in his hand. Nakonec – in the style of a magic show – the laptop was pulled through a hoop. What we take for granted today really seemed like a magic trick to most people at the time.
I consider that iBook to be one of the most disgusting things that Apple granted. That was a real blast.
It must have been nice at the time. Nowadays, no one would buy it just for the sake of it. Even if it was powerful as it would be. Nobody would buy it today just because of the design.