[josh2600]

I always think about blackberry’s internal design teams telling the ceo that the iPhone was fake, then getting one and seeing that it was a small logic board with a giant battery.

RIM got so completely smoked with their ten year development cycles. It’s amazing if that they still have a business today to be honest.

[someuser2345]

To be fair, a lot of the iPhone's first demo was faked.

[testing22321]

Even the CEO of United Launch Aliance said public ally the SpaceX raptor 3 was fake.

They are so far ahead even their biggest competitor can’t comprehend what they’re doing.

[stefanfisk]

Where can I read more about the design team believing that the iPhone was fake?

[gwid0n]

https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Signal-Extraordinary-Spectacul...

There's also an entertaining movie based on this book, a rare business film that is more about failure than success.

[nicolaslegland]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2047623