The Q&A session of one of Apple’s most notable events in the last 20 years has surfaced online, and you should watch it before it vanishes. Watch it below.
Watch it before Apple pulls it
Even if you didn’t follow Apple closely back in 2010, you have probably heard about Antennagate and the last-minute press conference that pulled Steve Jobs from a family vacation in Hawaii.
If you’re just joining us, here’s what happened: Soon after Apple released the iPhone 4, users noticed that the cell signal would drop significantly depending on how they held the device.
The commotion around this was big enough that Apple scheduled an emergency event just weeks after the iPhone 4 hit the shelves.
In it, Jobs explained that the signal drop wasn’t exclusive to the iPhone 4, but that users would have the choice to either get a free case to prevent their hands from making direct contact with the antenna, or return the phone for a full refund.
After the event, Jobs was joined by then-COO Tim Cook and Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac Hardware Engineering, for a Q&A with the press.
Since then, there have been multiple accounts of what was said during the Q&A, including John Gruber’s recollections from asking the question that prompted Jobs, Cook, and Mansfield to pull their caseless iPhones out of their pockets, resulting in one of the more memorable photos from that era. However, the actual video of the session had never surfaced. Until now.
Earlier this week, YouTube channel Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music (no apparent relation to the actual Sir Mix-A-Lot) published the entire 47-minute Q&A session, which you can watch below:
There is no information on how the channel obtained the video or whether Apple plans to file a copyright takedown request. But now that the footage is out there, copies could easily resurface elsewhere even if the original upload disappears.
The mere fact that the video is still up is a good sign. That said, if you want to see this little piece of Apple history for yourself, you might want to watch it sooner rather than later.
Did you already follow Apple back in the Antennagate days? Let us know in the comments.
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