But every so often, ideas that Steve Jobs dismissed at first could grow on him over time. One day’s stupid idea could become tomorrow’s brilliant breakthrough. “As far as I know,” says Brian Huppi, one of the engineers responsible for the Jumbotron, “Jony showed him the demo of multitouch and then it was clicking in his mind. . . . Steve does this, you know: He comes back later and it’s his idea.”21 The idea clicking in Steve’s mind was the notion that somehow the multitouch technology could be used to solve the phone problem.
