The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

I still don't understand why this book has not been a superhit. It's my favorite innovation book, out of the hundreds that I've read. It's well researched, well written, and shows in an incredibly powerful way how innovation really works. 'How the sausage is made' is never the visionary CEO saying to the R&D department: design this! It's actually quite the opposite. So much for Steve Jobs the genius. In this book you will find the geniuses that actually made the iPhone and it's even more important software. Steve Jobs was a genius at getting brilliant people to work at Apple. If only he had been a little more humble and not take all the credit for their work.

Come molte storie che riguardano Apple e Jobs in particolare, la narrativa è spesso spostata sulle azioni di Steve come influenzatore dei fatti. Questo libro è a mio parere più oggettivo, ed analizza il lavoro corale che è esistito in quella fucina di innovazioni che è stata Apple in quel periodo. Tutti noi, anche i concorrenti, dobbiamo riconoscere l'impatto che tale innovazioni hanno avuto. Leggetelo, se volete almeno intuire cosa c'è dietro alla creazione di un oggetto che ha cambiato il mondo

I was really looking forward to reading The One Device(on that later) My takeaways are a person never realized how many people had something to do with the making of the iPhone. We give the credit to Steve Jobs and he deserves it with his vision, leadership and most of all his blessings-the iconic iPhone would have never been build. And yet, he fought and had to be persuaded to build a phone, open the App Store, have iTunes in windows and that was not easy as he was the boss, a jerk and a force of nature. The scope of hands that contributed to the iPhone is incredible from the miners in Chille getting the raw material for the lithium batteries, to the hands of brilliant engineers and designers at Apple, to all the past inventions notably multitouch,to WiFi, to chips and so on without them the iPhones will have not been possible.Is an incredible read but my disappointment was the writer Merchant writing style-it wasn't easy to read , he goes way to deep into the weeds(way too much details ) it almost feels like a textbook. I like nonfiction books to feel like fiction, a story with plots, with transition and connecting points and even a little cliff hangers. At the end I rushed it to finish the book. That's not to say I didn't like it and I learned a lot about the iPhone. One last note I am Die-Hard Apple fan but Apple has become the greedy and sometimes heartless corporation(we all detest) with profits margin for iPhone at 40-70% and suicide factory in China and Apple workers in stores barely making above minimum wages is something I hope changes. On looking forward to reading it, the textbook style disappointed me but nevertheless I recommend it especially if you love the iPhone.

Speedy delivery early chapters read well

An eye-opening insight (both the good and bad) into the device that has influenced every one of us in some way.