A person named "iPhone birth privacy story and Steve Jobs" told by developers of "Safari"

ByDarren Harvey

The first iPhone was held on January 9th, 2007MacworldIt was officially announced at the same time, it was released in June of the same year, which caused a global whirlwind, TIME'sInvention Of the YearIt was also selected. Francisco Tolmasky who was involved in the development of such iPhone, deeply involved in the "Safari" of the plain application and the map applicationThe New York TimesIn response to the interview, I talked about Mr. Steve Jobs at the time of the birth of the iPhone.

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Tolmasky, who just started working at Apple around the age of 20, is now 29 years old. He left Apple in December 2007, after which he started "280 North"Was created to create" a tool for creating mobile web applications ", but in 2010,MotorolaIt was bought for about 20 million dollars (about 2 billion yen). Later, Tolmasky is setting up a game development company as an entrepreneur.

Tolmasky and Apple contacted me for the first time when he was nearing graduation of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California soon. Recruiter immediately noticed that Tolmasky is a member of the developer community who is messing with WebKit, the browser's rendering engine, when he first encounters with Apple's recruiter, offering "I want you to work at Apple soon" I will. A few months later, from the first quarter of 2006, Tolmasky will be working at Apple in earnest, but at this time Apple's CEO Steve Jobs took about a month's vacation It seems that it was necessary to wait forever for Mr. Jobs to return to work in order to get a formal recruitment notice.

After such a thing, Tolmasky will be responsible for developing the web browser with the iPhone development team. Tolmasky and others The workplace of the iPhone development team was isolated from other employees and was further divided into a hardware group and a software group within the team so that they did not work together as one team Thing. These are measures to prevent any secret about the iPhone from being leaked out.

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The software group is further subdivided into a web team and an application team, and Tolmasky will undertake the development of the mobile browser (later Safari) among the web team composed of five members. There was no specific leader in the software group, and Tolmasky was the leader in the style of setting a different leader for each project, it is said that it was "development of a web browser dedicated to iPhone". It also revealed that the software group was involved in a lot of software until the original iPhone was shipped, Tolmasky said that he was deeply involved in the creation of the map application installed on the initial iPhone It is.

Mr. Jobs visited the iPhone development team isolated from the general office more than twice a week at a time, and Mr. Jobs gave feedback on every prototype and prototype function every time he visited the team. In that case, "It is necessary for the iPhone to be magical, but it is often insufficient to call it magical!" Tolmasky recalls then. Furthermore, I confess that I was very frustrated and I also confessed that Mr. Jobs' creation of "magical-like terminal" seemed almost impossible task.

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Furthermore, Tolmasky revealed that the "keyboard" of the first iPhone was born when Mr. Jobs did not like the design of the prototype keyboard of the iPhone and let the whole team think about keyboard ideas for a week all round. According to Mr. Tolmasky, Mr. Jobs adopted the keyboard proposal from the web team he belonged to, and he said that he was doing only tasks related to the keyboard for a while for a while since then.

As a little unknown story, Jobs mentioned that "I want a map application for the iPhone" several weeks before Macworld held in January 2007. Tolmasky 's teammate, Chris Blumenberg, was assigned this task and continued working nonstop until he developed a functional map application for exhibition. Tolmasky says, "He created a map application that will work within a week and that application was released at Macworld Expo the following week."

Mr. Chris, who was ordered to create a map application, said from Jobs, "It is important, it really needs to move, and you can move this," said these words Mr. Jobs has "Something like a special influence"Tolmasky expresses it.

ByBen Stanfield

Also, on the iPhone design team there is a member named "Steve", and as the name is the same as Mr. Jobs, it seems that confusion often occurred during the meeting. Mr. Jobs seemed to be considerably frustrated in this regard, "I hear a little bit, you are now" Margaret "from now on I will tell the designer" Steve ", after that the designer 'Steve' It is said to be called Margaret.

ByCharis Tsevis

Tolmasky left Apple in 2007 because he said the success of the iPhone has made the team bigger and the priority has changed, he said, because I feel like a startup company has gone away from Apple He said that he was a business start-up.

Currently TolmaskySmart sensorWe are developing games that specialize in games, that is, games making full use of acceleration sensors and gyroscopes in mobile terminals. He released a new "Bonsai SliceIs an application created by five development teams, it is an application that swings the iPad like swinging the sword and cuts everything on the screen.

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