If it wasnt for one particular executive at Microsoft, whom Steve Jobs seemingly hated with a passion, Apple may never have created the iPhone or iPad.Recounting the story of the birth of the iPhone at a talk at the Computer History Museum in California, former Apple iOS chief Scott Forstall said: The iPhone had a very circuitous route. Wed been working on a tablet project.It began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft. Any time Steve had any interaction with the guy, hed come back pissed off.The unnamed Microsoft executive, who was apparently the husband of a friend of Jobss wife Laurene Powell Jobs, continuously talked and bragged about Redmond-based companys plans for tablets and styluses, so much so that Jobs decided to try and beat him.After being badgered by the Microsoft executive over dinner for the 10th time, being told how Microsoft was going to change the world with its tablet PC software and stylus and that Apple should just license it, Jobs lost patience and, as recounted in Walter Isaacsons Jobs biography, said: Fuck this, lets show him what a tablet can really be.
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