iPhone: The untold story

Wired has a fantastic piece on what it took to make the iPhone, and how the iPhone is changing the landscape of the cellphone industry. It's an inside look at a secretive company and their goal of changing the world with a device that broke all the rules.

An excerpt:

"Through it all, Jobs maintained the highest level of secrecy. Internally, the project was known as P2, short for Purple 2 (the abandoned iPod phone was called Purple 1). Teams were split up and scattered across Apple's Cupertino, California, campus. Whenever Apple executives traveled to Cingular, they registered as employees of Infineon, the company Apple was using to make the phone's transmitter. Even the iPhone's hardware and software teams were kept apart: Hardware engineers worked on circuitry that was loaded with fake software, while software engineers worked off circuit boards sitting in wooden boxes. By January 2007, when Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld, only 30 or so of the most senior people on the project had seen it."

Overall a great read for any Apple iPhone fan, and of course, that means you since your're reading this blog right?

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