The One Device
The Secret History of the iPhone
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- 10,99 €
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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 mobile 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 every stage of the iPhone's creation.
This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'. It's a first-hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work - touch screens, motion trackers and even AI - made its way into our pockets.
The One Device is a road map for design and engineering genius, an anthropology of the modern age and an unprecedented view into one of the most secretive companies in history. This is the untold account, ten years in the making, of the device that changed everything.
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Ocean of useless, unrelated items, and key points missimg
This book is really disappointing. I’m an Apple fan, and I’m so well before the iPhone came to light (around the first LCD iMac). I was really eager to know more about the iPhone inception and all the secrets, trials and explored paths. This book is unfortunately a massive letdown and failure. It has a lot of useless, unrelated information, while skipping crucial insights. For example, the book tells you that about five centuries ago, a given mountain in South America was called xyz, or that the author had a driver called x and whose family lived in a town nearby. Seriously? Who cares about this? Readers are interested in the iPhone and how it was created. The author spends a lot of time explaining technologies that go in the iPhone, but that’s not really the topic. If someone asks you what time is it, are you going to tell him the story of how time has been measured since the beginning of time measurement many centuries ago, and all the different technologies/ methods since? Of course not! Is the author spending so much time this way to have a book with a lot of pages to justify the price? Or to show he has a lot of knowledge? Or just because he likes to talk and talk and talk? Whatever the reason, the outcome is hardly bearable. The writing style is quite trivial and not creative or enjoyable. So not only a great part of the content is out of the subject, but the way it is told is mediocre and unappealing. Many crucial parts are missing, such as Apple manufacturing power and tight grip, as well as the contract negotiations with the telecom operators such as at&t. Without these two core foundations, the iPhone could not have never been such a success.