![]() “but the concepts we mapped out have undoubtedly lived on.” “There is a saying in the investment community that being too early is a good as being wrong,” Harter says. Expense was a problem, wireless broadband was not commonplace, and there were some technical obstacles to resolve. Mobile companies, not to mention their customers, simply weren’t ready for the type of phone that was being proposed. ![]() Seven or eight years before Apple unveiled the iPhone, not everyone really got the point of this idea. I’m pretty certain that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were there.” The room was packed with technology luminaries and CEOs. “Around 2000, we demonstrated it at the famous Sun Valley summer camp for industry moguls. “We knew that the phones of the future would need to do a lot more than just make calls,” Andy Harter, responsible for the broadband phone project, remembers. ![]() This, though, was 1999 – and the place was not an Apple research lab, but Cambridge, UK.
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