The One Device Quotes

“Those smarts would be crucial. “People thought that the keyboard we delivered wasn’t sophisticated, but in reality it was super-sophisticated,” Williamson says. “Because the touch region of each key was smaller than the minimum hit size. We had to write a bunch of predictive algorithms technology to think about the words you could possibly be typing, artificially increase the hit area of the next few keys that would correspond to”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Twitter, and Facebook—platforms that reorganized how we communicate,”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“make that list, it has to be desirable almost universally.” Meanwhile,”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Clothes—a Paleolithic thing? Glasses? And a phone. The list is tiny. In”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“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,”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“How did it become the one device we need above all? I”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“No. Not Shang hi. Hang zoo.” Smog”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Where are. You from?” “California.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Steve Jobs strode onstage at Macworld wearing his trademark black turtleneck, blue jeans, and white”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“When I asked the iPhone’s architects what they thought its first must-use function was, Google Maps was probably the most frequent answer. And it was a fairly last-minute adoption; it took two iPhone software engineers, who had access to Google’s data as part of that long-forgotten early partnership, about three weeks to create the app that would forever change people’s relationship to navigating the world. Magnetometer”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“There wasn’t really time to kick your feet back on the desk and say, ‘This is going to be really fucking awesome one day.’ It was like, ‘Holy fuck, we’re fucked.’ Every time you turned around there was some just imminent demise of the program just lurking around the corner.” Making”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“There was a problem, however: his battery kept catching fire. “There were some flammability issues,” Whittingham says. “We had several fires, mostly”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“So, according to Michaud’s calculations, producing a single iPhone requires mining 34 kilos of ore, 100 liters of water, and 20.5 grams of cyanide, per industry average. “That’s what’s shocking!” he”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Wireless technology remained the province of the state through most the 1950s, with one emerging exception: wealthy business folk. Top-tier mobile devices might seem expensive now, but they’re not even in the same league as the first private radio-communications systems, which literally cost as much as a house. The rich didn’t use radio to fight crime, of course. They used them to network their chauffeurs, allowing them to coordinate with their personal drivers, and for business.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Jobs would soon pit the iPod team against a Mac software team to refine and produce a product that was more specifically phone-like. The herculean task of squeezing Apple’s acclaimed operating system into a handheld phone would take another two years to complete. Executives would clash; some would quit. Programmers would spend years of their lives coding around the clock to get the iPhone ready to launch, scrambling their social lives, their marriages, and sometimes their health in the process.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“A team was sent over to Jobs’s house because the CEO had found that his Wi-Fi reception was nonexistent. The culprit? “It was this brick house with two-foot-thick walls,” Evan Doll recalls.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Most of these phones are likely headed to Taogao, the Chinese eBay, or eBay, the American eBay.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“Originally, Siri was more colorful—it dropped f-bombs, teased users more aggressively, had more of a bombastic personality.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“The first calls from an Apple phone were not, it turns out, made on the sleek touchscreen interface of the future but on a steampunk rotary dial.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

“If we made the iPhone a millimeter thicker,” says Tony Fadell, the head of hardware for the first iPhone, “we could make it last twice as long.”
― Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone