{"id":1141,"date":"2013-03-07T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:30:04","slug":"the-iphone-and-4000-lattes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/the-iphone-and-4000-lattes\/","title":{"rendered":"the iPhone and 4000 lattes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/nadyne\/archive\/2007\/01\/09\/music-to-start-and-end-the-day.aspx\">I was at Macworld when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone<\/a>. \u00a0Several of us from my then-team were in attendance, and we all sat together in the main hall for the Stevenote. \u00a0And yes, I laughed when Steve called a local Starbucks and ordered 4000 lattes.<\/p>\n<p>The fine folks at Fast Company have done some deep investigative journalism and went to visit that selfsame Starbucks. \u00a0Yes, really:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3006147\/most-innovative-companies-2013\/because-steve-jobss-first-public-iphone-call-starbucks-still-\">Because Of Steve Jobs&#8217;s First Public iPhone Call, Starbucks Still Gets Orders For 4,000 Lattes<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks to Fast Company, I now know that the Starbucks employee who answered the phone when Steve called still works there, and that people years later are still calling and asking for 4000 lattes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Funny enough, now orders for 4,000 lattes are more common, thanks to the endless droves of Apple fanboys still wanting to partake in some aspect of Jobs&#8217;s legacy. &#8220;Before him, no [we never received such an order],&#8221; Hannah says. &#8220;After he made the call, everyone copied him, prank calling our store and ordering thousands of lattes&#8211;to this day!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Macworld when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. \u00a0Several of us from my then-team were in attendance, and we all sat together in the main hall for the Stevenote. \u00a0And yes, I laughed when Steve called a local Starbucks and ordered 4000 lattes. The fine folks at Fast Company have done some deep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/the-iphone-and-4000-lattes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the iPhone and 4000 lattes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}