The new iPhone 17 comes with a Ceramic Shield 2 screen, built by Corning. But it only exists because a Steve Jobs masterclass convinced the company’s CEO to take a giant risk way back in 2007.
Corning has been making screens for iPhones since 2007
Corning has been making screens for iPhones since 2007
That’s according to Wendell Weeks, who is still the Corning CEO almost two decades later. Speaking to Fortune, Weeks told the story of how his company got involved with the iPhone — and it includes a typical Steve Jobs anecdote.
The way Weeks tells it, he’d tried to pitch Jobs on a technology that would turn a smartphone into a projector. Jobs wasn’t sold, saying that it was the “dumbest idea [I’ve] ever effing heard.” But he did take note of Corning itself.
