The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

by Brian Merchant

“The iPhone is not only the bestselling mobile phone but also the bestselling music player, the bestselling camera, the bestselling video screen and the bestselling computer of all time,” he concluded. “It is, quite simply, the bestselling product of all time.”

It’s simple, compelling, and seems morally right—the hardworking person with brilliant ideas who refused to give up earned his fortune with toil and personal sacrifice. It’s also a counterproductive and misleading fiction.

They enduring much of the solo inventive genius