The long-awaited iPhone 15 came out at September 2023’s “Wonderlust” event, along with the much-rumored switch from Lightning to USB-C, but France still had a bone to pick with the iPhone 12.
Apple’s iPhone 15 was released in September 2023
France is a fine country with a long history, you should visit if you possibly can, and Paris is everything it’s claimed to be. But part of that history does include one French person making a mistake and his pal covering up for him by insisting he was right.
That was over the meter, the length which defines a meter, and how whoever calculated it first, got distracted. This was 231 years ago, so let’s name names: Pierre-Franois-Andre Mechain got the length wrong, and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre nodded a lot.
