{"id":89280,"date":"1999-12-31T00:50:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/iphone-5-was-real-til-jobs-scrapped-it\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:50:00","slug":"iphone-5-was-real-til-jobs-scrapped-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/iphone-5-was-real-til-jobs-scrapped-it\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5 WAS Real (Til Jobs Scrapped It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it wasn&#8217;t just a load of hype: Apple ditched iPhone 5 because Steve Jobs threw a hissy fit over the larger screen size. That&#8217;s according to an industry source who revealed Jobs was unhappy with the larger iPhone 5 screen, believing it &#8220;fragmented&#8221; the device as it differed from previous models.<\/p>\n<table style=\"\" align=\"Right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"300\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/2011111612593084b83.jpg', 'foo', 'width=400, height=545, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/2011111612593084b83_300x300.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Click to enlarge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\">This is what could have been<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>iPhone 5 was scrapped just three months before 4S release &#8211; to the surprise of many Apple engineers. Jobs died just one day after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarthouse.com.au\/Phones\/Mobile\/Q9J6D3P7\">4S was revealed,<\/a> on October 5th last. <\/p>\n<p>The 2011 iPhone 5 that never was &#8211; had a 4 inch screen diagonally, just slightly smaller than its arch rival Samsung Galaxy S II, an industry insider close to Apple told businesinsider.com. <\/p>\n<p>The globally hyped iPhone 5 also sported a metal back similar to iPad 2 and was also flatter, as a previous flurry of internet rumours had suggested, a coloured screen, 10Mp camera (compared to 8Mp on 4S), far more powerful but with poor battery life (no change on 4S then). <\/p>\n<p>There was also a mysterious home button which&nbsp; &#8220;was not a physical press button. 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