Note for example that the EN Wikipedia page for Hullot doesn't mention anything about the iPhone. The FR page however claims he inspired Steve Jobs to create the iPhone, citing 3 different references (2 newspapers, 1 blog).pic.twitter.com/WoqKpU8lgN
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Note for example that the EN Wikipedia page for Hullot doesn't mention anything about the iPhone. The FR page however claims he inspired Steve Jobs to create the iPhone, citing 3 different references (2 newspapers, 1 blog).pic.twitter.com/WoqKpU8lgN
An article in Le Monde's online publication mentions he "created the iPhone in a secret lab with 20 engineers in Paris":https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/binaire/2019/06/20/jean-marie-hullot-informaticien-visionnaire-technologiste-exceptionnel/ …
zdnet calls him one of the "fathers of the iPhone" https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/deces-de-jean-marie-hullot-l-un-des-peres-de-l-iphone-39886417.htm … BFMTV: "With a team of 20 engineers, he imagined and developed a smartphone."https://www.bfmtv.com/tech/qui-etait-jean-marie-hullot-ce-francais-qui-parlait-a-l-oreille-de-steve-jobs-1717030.html …
In reality, I think the original source for all this is this interview, greatly amplified: https://www.inria.fr/actualite/actualites-inria/jean-marie-hullot-des-cartes-perforees-a-l-iphone … In it, Hullot claims to have talked to Jobs in 2000 (!) about the idea of building a smartphone. Before the iPod even released.
Hullot then ended up leading the iSync team at Apple Paris, building cloud synchronization mechanisms for data on Apple devices. He then mentions further in the interview that when in 2006 Jobs started the iPhone project, Paris was left out entirely.
TL;DR: french journalists just randomly repeat and distort signal until only noise remain. No fact checking whatsoever.
Ask people who worked with Jean-Marie... the iPhone definitely wasn’t developed in Paris, but they were many different competing projects. Some were shelved. ISync is only the visible part of the iceberg.
You’ll never find anyone speaking on the record about this since shelved projects stay confidential. So your quest for sources is doomed. But there is more to this story than you believe ;)
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