Wired: Making of the iPhone

[Rene Ritchie]

Excellent essay collecting insider sources and historical bits, putting iPhone?s development into context. Industry bending to say the least?

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1

For those who many not want to wade through the 3000ish word Wired write up, Valleywag has also provided a handy 300ish word bullet-point summation:

http://valleywag.com/343150/the-real-untold-story-of-the-iphone

 

[patrickj]

Saw that last night. It really is a great read. Wonder what he's got his engineers working feverishly on right now ...

 

[archie]

Yes, it is a good read. But as I heard someone say, there is no actual source from Apple Inc. (and in checking it out, they are correct) so some of this is suspicious.