{"id":343582,"date":"2017-06-13T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/13\/the-one-device-secret-history-iphone-book\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T23:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:33:40","slug":"the-one-device-book-covering-secret-history-of-iphone-available-june-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/the-one-device-book-covering-secret-history-of-iphone-available-june-20\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The One Device’ Book Covering ‘Secret History’ of iPhone Available June 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 29 will mark ten years since the original iPhone went on sale in the United States. And just days before the anniversary, a new book detailing the smartphone’s so-called “secret history” is set to be released.<\/p>\n

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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone<\/em>, by technology journalist Brian Merchant, reflects on how the iPhone transformed the world and turned Apple into the most valuable company ever.<\/p>\n

An excerpt of the book, which is said to contain exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors, and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone’s creation, has been published on The Verge<\/a><\/em> today:\n<\/p>\n

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If you worked at Apple in the mid-2000s, you might have noticed a strange phenomenon afoot: people were disappearing.<\/p>\n

It happened slowly at first. One day there\u2019d be an empty chair where a star engineer used to sit. A key member of the team, gone. Nobody could tell you exactly where they went.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been hearing rumblings about, well, it was unclear what was being built, but it was clear that a lot of the best engineers from the best teams had been slurped over to this mysterious team,\u201d says Evan Doll, who was then a software engineer at Apple\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The book can be pre-ordered for $18.50 on Amazon<\/a> in hardcover format ahead of its release on June 20. It’s also available to pre-order on the iBooks Store<\/a> for $14.99 in digital format for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 29 will mark ten years since the original iPhone went on sale in the United States. And just days before the anniversary, a new book detailing the smartphone’s so-called “secret history” is set to be released.<\/p>\n

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\nThe One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone<\/em>, by technology journalist Brian Merchant, reflects on how the iPhone transformed the world and turned Apple into the most valuable company ever.<\/p>\n

An excerpt of the book, which is said to contain exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors, and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone’s creation, has been published on The Verge<\/a><\/em> today:<\/p>\n

If you worked at Apple in the mid-2000s, you might have noticed a strange phenomenon afoot: people were disappearing.<\/p>\n

It happened slowly at first. One day there\u2019d be an empty chair where a star engineer used to sit. A key member of the team, gone. Nobody could tell you exactly where they went.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been hearing rumblings about, well, it was unclear what was being built, but it was clear that a lot of the best engineers from the best teams had been slurped over to this mysterious team,\u201d says Evan Doll, who was then a software engineer at Apple\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book can be pre-ordered for $18.50 on Amazon<\/a> in hardcover format ahead of its release on June 20. It’s also available to pre-order on the iBooks Store<\/a> for $14.99 in digital format for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.<\/p>\n

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