In a Rare Moment of Self- Doubt, Steve Jobs Wanted a Back Button on the i. Phone. Steve Jobs was legendary for knowing what he wanted and leaning on his designers until he got it. But according to a new book on the history of the i. Phone, he insisted that it should have a back button. After one of his people presented a good argument for the distinctive single home button, he backed down. The One Device: The Secret History of the i.

Phone by Brian Merchant has been getting a lot of attention and it sounds like a pretty decent attempt at covering the insider story at a company that’s notoriously difficult to get inside of. Among Merchant’s findings is this little gem: The touch- based phone, which was originally supposed to be nothing but screen, was going to need at least one button. We all know it well today – the Home button. But Steve Jobs wanted it to have two; he felt they’d need a back button for navigation. Chaudhri argued that it was all about generating trust and predictability. One button that does the same thing every time you press it: it shows you your stuff.…“Again, that came down to a trust issue,” Chaudhri says, “that people could trust the device to do what they wanted it to do. Part of the problem with other phones was the features were buried in menus, they were too complex.” A back button could complicate matters too, he told Jobs.“I won that argument,” Chaudhri says.”And thus, history was made.

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The single home button was decided, plus Steve Jobs doubted his own instincts and listened to someone else. What’s interesting is that the i. Phone sort of set the template for all the subsequent smartphones to come. But Android competitors did throw on a back button.

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Adding extra stuff is basically the Android way. The simplicity of the i. Phone kept it distinctive.

At least in that one moment, Chaudhri understood the Apple way better than Steve. It’s a perfect time for that little story to come to light because it looks like we’re about to see the home button’s demise.

Smartphone accessory maker Mobile. Fun has a reputation for accurately leaking i. Phone details months in advance. This weekend, the company posted a listing for an i. Phone 8 tempered glass screen protector: It certainly looks like this is the best evidence yet that the home button is officially dead.[BGR, Forbes].

Ro Laren Memory Alpha. For additional meanings of "Ro", please see Ro."You know me, I enjoy a challenge."Ro Laren was a Bajoran national who formerly served in Starfleet aboard the Federationstarship. USS Enterprise- D before finally sympathizing with, and later defecting to, the Maquis. Childhood. Edit. Ro was born on January 1. Bajor to Ro Talia and Ro Gale. TNG: "Conundrum", "The Next Phase" personnel file). Recalling her childhood as "a long, depressing period of [her] life, [she] was grateful when it was finally over." (TNG: "Rascals") Ro had grown up in the Bajoran diaspora, as one of the thousands displaced into refugee camps by the Cardassianoccupation of her homeworld.

During her youth, she spent some time in the camps on Valo II. TNG: "Ensign Ro") In all, she spent ten years in the camps. TNG: "Preemptive Strike").

Although most of the time she didn't even have a bed while living in the camps, there were times she did, when she was very young, and she would be afraid of the imaginary monsters that were under her bed. TNG: "Rascals", "Preemptive Strike") To help ease her fears, Ro's father would play the belaklavion for her, which he told her had "special powers" and that "monsters were afraid of it, and they'd disappear whenever they heard it." She recalled that when she heard her father's music, she was never afraid to go to sleep.

TNG: "Preemptive Strike"). Ro Laren as she appeared at age twelve. In 2. 34. 7, Ro was shown the true nature of the occupation when she was given a piece of sugar candy by a Cardassian, who led her to a room where she found her father sitting inside. For the next two hours she was forced to sit and watch as a Cardassian questioned and tortured her father until he died.

Throughout the entire ordeal, Ro felt ashamed of being a Bajoran. She was ashamed of her father for being so weak, as she watched him beg for mercy. Laren eventually found that she could not live in an environment where her people were unable to feed and clothe themselves. Because of this, she ran away. TNG: "Ensign Ro") After his death, she finally realized that even her father could not make all the monsters in her life go away. TNG: "Preemptive Strike").

Over time, Ro began to understand how misguided her feelings of shame were, and eventually she chose to no longer be ashamed of her heritage. Ro decided to keep her name in traditional form: family name first, given name second. She did this despite the fact that most Bajorans accepted the distortion of their names in order to assimilate. She also strongly favored wearing the traditional Bajoran earring, albeit on the left ear as opposed to the traditional right ear. TNG: "Ensign Ro"). Later in her life, she revealed that she never really drew a picture of her mother.

It was also revealed that the young Ro Laren was a repressed jumper. TNG: "Rascals"). Starfleet career. Edit. Academy and early career. Edit. Ro Laren entered Starfleet Academy in 2. Her Starfleet service serial number was HL- 2. APL). (TNG: "Conundrum", "The Next Phase").

The information presented here comes from Ro's death certificate in "The Next Phase," which was apparently a revision of Ro's personnel file that originally appeared in "Conundrum". Included in the death certificate revisions were two notable corrections from the original file, including the changing of her birthplace from "Bajora" to "Bajor" and her graduation date from the academy changed from "2. As Bajor was not a member of the Federation at the time Ro joined Starfleet, she would have needed endorsment by a command- level officer. DS9: "Heart of Stone")One of Ro's early assignments was aboard the USS Wellington. During that assignment in the mid- 2. Ro was a member of the disastrous away team mission to Garon II.

During the mission, Ro disobeyed direct orders, causing the eight other members of the away team to die. Ro was court- martialed for her actions and refused to speak in her own defense. With little alternative, the court found Ro guilty and sentenced her to imprisonment in the stockade on Jaros II. TNG: "Ensign Ro") Jean- Luc Picard felt that, had Ro not lost her rank following her court martial, she could have been a lieutenant commander by late 2.

TNG: "The Next Phase"). Picard also noted that the incident took place on "Garon IV" rather than "Garon II." USS Enterprise- DEdit. First mission. Edit. In 2. 36. 8, Ro was released by Admiral. Kennelly and reinstated into Starfleet in exchange for helping locate a Bajoran terrorist.

While secretly conducting her mission, Ro was assigned to assist the USS Enterprise- D on stardate 4. Due to her familiarity with the Valo system, she was initially assigned as flight controller. Upon reaching Valo II, she suggested the best route for them to take would be to go to the camp on the southern continent to find a man named Keeve Falor. Ro sits alone in Ten Forward, sipping her beverage and turning people away when they offer to sit with her. As Geordi La Forge at the bar nearby expresses his displeasure at Ro's presence to Guinan, she decides to get to know Ro. During their conversation, Ro reveals that she was court- martialed for disobeying a direct order, resulting in the death of eight fellow officers.

Guinan persists despite Ro's efforts to push her away. In her quarters, Ro receives a transmission from Kennelly and tells him that all is going according to plan. When it comes time to beam to the surface, Picard finds Ro is gone and the terrorists never showed up at the designated meeting location. He beams down anyway with an away team, where they find themselves surrounded by armed Bajorans, with Ro among them. Orta emerges, his face mutilated and vocal cords cut by the Cardassians. He tells them that the Bajorans did not attack Solarion IV and lets them go.

Back on the Enterprise's bridge, Ro discusses the issue of who attacked Solarion IV with the other officers until Picard asks her into his ready room. There he angrily asks her to explain her actions. While her intentions appear to have been good – she hoped to avoid bloodshed by talking to Orta before the meeting – Picard confines her to her quarters for the rest of the mission. That night, Guinan visits Ro to talk about what has happened.

She observes that Ro seems to trust no one, least of all herself. After a brief conversation, Guinan recalls a time in her life when she got herself into a bad situation and that she would probably still be there if she had not put her trust in one man.

Despite Ro being confined to her quarters, Guinan takes her to Picard's ready room. Guinan leaves the two of them to talk, and Ro reveals a secret about her purpose aboard the Enterprise: Admiral Kennelly wanted her to make a secret deal with Orta, in direct violation of the Prime Directive. So long as Orta stopped attacking the Federation, Kennelly would supply him and his fellows with weapons and ships. However, when she learned Orta was not responsible, she did not know what to do. Watch The Voices Online Free HD more. Ro shares a story about how her father was tortured to death in front of her at the hands of the Cardassians, explaining that she felt ashamed to be Bajoran.

She and Picard decide to find a way for Orta to help them expose the ones who really attacked the Federation colony. Picard, reluctant to let go of an officer with Ro's potential, requests that Ro remain on board for the Enterprise's next scheduled mission to survey Sector 2. TNG: "Ensign Ro"). Later missions. Edit. Not long after Ro's transfer to the Enterprise, a quantum filament caused major damage to the ship. Unable to communicate with the rest of the crew, Ro, Lt. Cmdr. Troi, Chief O'Brien and Ensign Mandel were trapped on the bridge.

The quantum resonance of the filament caused a polarity shift in the ship's antimatter containment fields, leading to a progressive degeneration in the fields, threatening the ship. Before Commander Riker and Lt.