The One Device
The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant · first published 2017
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The secret history of the invention that changed everything - and became the most profitable product in the world. Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to "the one device," as he called it, a cell phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino-based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors, and developers who guided ever
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The One Device details the people and history well. https://www.amazon.com/One-Device-Secret-History-iPhone/dp/0... It just came out a year ago. You can also try my user-editable site (https://theymadethat.com/things/k4z/iphone)…
on “Who Invented the iPhone?” ↗…presumably benefitting from the company's product(s). The users would probably prefer that the company keep slogging than that it get acquihired and the "failed" product get killed. I recently read _The One Device_ by Brian Merchant, and I'm reminded of the story, told in that book, about how FingerWorks sold out to Apple. The FingerWorks users got screwed when Apple discontinued FingerWorks product development…
on “Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company” ↗Doesn't Foxconn also manufacture products for many other companies? It doesn't matter because, at the end of the article: "This is an edited extract from The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant, published by Bantam Press (£16.99). To order a copy for £14.44 go to bookshop.theguardian.com"
on “Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city” ↗…long time. A designer at Apple had a temporary injury and used it. The rest of the team loved and used it to build a touch interface for the Mac, long before they even considered a phone. Source: The One Device, the secret history of the iPhone by Brian Merchant There is also the OXO vegetable peeler. It was designed for the creator's wife, she had arthritis. Then the whole company grew from that.
on “The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”” ↗