Met his parents once, while working in retail.<p>They wanted to see, if we were selling nest devices. I told them no, but they could find them in this and that shop.<p>They answered something along the lines: “Don’t worry, we already have enough of them. Our son Tony invented those, and everytime we travel around the world, we would check, if stores would sell them and send him a picture.”<p>They were really nice.
I've been reading Tony Fadell's book "Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making" and it's great so far!<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Build-Unorthodox-Guide-Making-Things/dp/0063046067" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Build-Unorthodox-Guide-Making-Things/...</a>
Fadell: "I couldn’t have built the iPod, iPhone, or Nest without Arm"<p>Yes, he did lead the team that built the first hardware manifestations of iPhone.<p>Software-wise though, there seems to have been a conflict between Fadell and Forstall. Forstall thankfully won.<p>I mean, have a look at the video in this article:<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188624/apple-prototype-iphone-ipod-click-wheel" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188624/apple-prototype-i...</a>
Will this lead to problems with cook/apple as apple is quite reliant on ARM licenses?<p>Also recent news about ARM moving away from licensing to chip companies to directly OEMS such as apple Samsung etc . What will this do?
Imagine what this guy could have done if he had gotten a C64 instead!<p>Edit: I should really wait before saying something like that, he basically made a C64 from an Apple II!