Caitlin Kalinowski: belief

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…Speaking of the Air and weight, I remember, I feel like there's a very classic moment in Steve Jobs lore where he comes out and has this manila envelope, and has the MacBook Air inside it, and then takes it out and everyone's like, "No way." Were you part of that? Was that something that people wanted to do from the beginning? I think, if my memory serves, the very, very, very first MacBook Air was a pretty low volume device that was machined, but kind of had more of a proof of what could be done. And that was the manila envelope one, I think, where the side door opened out to give you the port, and it had this shape underneath. And then the next rev of that was the MacBook Air that we know, essentially which is wedge shaped, which is different. And so the wedge shape is the one that I worked on, and the one that went and hit more volume. But that manila envelope one was the one that proved you can CNC a computer. And so they each have really important roles in the roadmap. Coming back to your point about focusing on things that people use the most, famously, Apple screwed up this keyboard. There was this butterfly keyboard situation for a long time. You're like, your eyes are closed [inaudible 00:41:16]. What happened? What happened, Caitlin?…

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