Retracement of the iphone in his book the one device. This year is the tenth anniversary of the iphone. Hes interviewed by New York Times reporter steve lohr. Host brian i read your book as a true creation story. One is apple has seen the turmoil that they went through to what ends up as the creation of the iphone. That is the history of the creation of each one of the technologies and those stories are knit together. Why did you take that approach and take us back to the start of the book project itself. Guest yeah well so the idea for the book really kind of began with the stark realization that the phone had integrated itself into its own life and the life of my peers. It was something i really didnt understand particularly well. I, you know a lot of us have that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly forced to go without it for a second in this case i was in a cab. When i was retrieving it, i was standing in light at the dmz and i had jettisoned my responsibilities for th
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The thing that integrated into my life and the life of my peers was something i really didnt understand particularly well. I, you know, a lot of us have that moment, i think, when we are abruptly and suddenly forced to go without it. I lost it in this case; left it in a cab. When i was retrieving the phone i was standing in line at the dmv and of course, i immediately put off the meetings at work and any other obligation. You just get your gone back. That is what you do when you lose your phone. It started gelling in my head. What is it about this one device that gives it this power . There is very little else i can imagine being forced to do such a thing. And as i sort of resolved the kind of digging into this and pealing off screen and seeing it more as just a Consumer Product i sort of started to realize there were there stories. There was the history of the phone and how it was developed at apple. That was carefully guarded by apple and the corporation. The other side of the story
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