The Secret Room Where the Original iPhone's Software Was Born [Photo]

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Posted March 26, 2014 at 3:16pm by iClarified

The WSJ has posted a photo of the secret room at Apple where the original iPhone's software was born.

The secret meeting room where most of the design decisions for the original iPhone’s software were made is “hallowed ground” to Greg Christie, who designs the software interface for Apple products and one of the first members recruited to work on the device in 2004.

The windowless room was lit by fluorescent lights hanging from the ceiling. The walls had signs of water damage from a flood in an adjacent bathroom and there were a few images put up including one of Apple’s “Think Different” posters of famous graphic designer Paul Rand and another of a large chicken running around without its head.

Christie offered some insight to the WSJ on the creation of the original iPhone yesterday. In the photo below you can see a system Apple rigged together to run early prototypes of the iPhone's software. A plastic touchscreen device codenamed 'Wallaby' was hooked up to an outdated Mac to replicate the slower speeds of the phone's hardware.

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The Secret Room Where the Original iPhone's Software Was Born [Photo]

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Mike Power - March 28, 2014 at 12:49am

This the room where "Sam cum junk" was born to Thief jobs infedility to Wozniak. And that why he was name Sam Cum AkA Junk.

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! - March 27, 2014 at 4:51pm

State-of-the-art! Hahahaha

thejett - March 27, 2014 at 3:01am

Why in earth does Apple's most forward thinking room have a G3 and a coily cabled handset. This makes my mother's house look like Futurama. There is no future conversations here, only reminiscing and nostalgia.

gamerscul9870 - March 27, 2014 at 3:14am

What else did they possible have to begin, when it comes to making something new, you work your way up to show progress, and it has moved far ahead from this.

david vangina - March 26, 2014 at 10:28pm

LOL how lame no sunlight basement hole, that explains why iphones cant be used outdoors,

gamerscul9870 - March 26, 2014 at 11:27pm

You mean this 1st generation iPhone, that explains why the newer ones are out everywhere than their.

BigPaus - March 26, 2014 at 7:55pm

This looks fake, how is an iphone (4?) appear to be plugged in on the far left corner of the table...

Meee - March 26, 2014 at 5:00pm

And apple computers are so clean! They don't have any wires hanging!!!

Yea - March 26, 2014 at 4:57pm

"Yea and this is the secret toilet the engineers used while taking a crap while holding the iphone". C'mon give me a break

gamerscul9870 - March 26, 2014 at 4:59pm

And your secret room explains where you were to write that comment to make it. C'mon give that break a break.

gamerscul9870 - March 26, 2014 at 4:20pm

Secret rare phone.