The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone: Library Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478949600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brian Merchant is the senior editor of Motherboard, VICE's science and technology outlet, the founder/editor of Terraform, its online fiction outlet, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, VICE Magazine, Salon, Fast Company, Discovery, GOOD, Paste, Grist, and beyond. . His work frequently appears on the front pages of Reddit, Digg, and Slashdot
I highly recommend it. When I first heard of this book I have mixed feelings on this book. But overall, I highly recommend it.When I first heard of this book, I was really interested in reading it and pre-ordered it on Amazon – since I like to ready and study the history and development of technology and Silicon Valley. I read The One Device over the course of a few days. No doubt, this boo was released a week before the 10th anniversary of release of the first iPhone - Friday, June 29th, 2007, to generate interest and sales.If you want *just* a history of the development of the first iPho. Mal Warwick said A brilliant study of product development. Other Silicon Valley observers have written about the development of the iPhone—but it's unlikely that anyone else has delved as deeply into the subject as Brian Merchant or will ever do so in the future, for that matter. Merchant's brilliant new book, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, tells the tale from the mining of the minerals from which the phone is crafted to the oppressive working conditions in Apple's Chinese manufacturing plants and the scavengers at Third World dumps where discarded iPhones are sometimes now . Highly recommend this book for those interested in the story of iPhone's development Neil Isenberg Review for: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhonePROS:------I highly recommend this book for those interested in the details of the topic promised in the title.The author offers a great deal of detail into the history of iPhone development and the early development of technologies before the iPhone development that directly (and indirectly) made the product possible. He gives us the names and contributions of many individuals most of us have never heard of. I'm sure those who contributed to the iPhone's success appreciate the cred
If you've looked at the glowing screen in your hand and wondered where the hell it came from, this book provides rich, unexpected, and unusually sophisticated answers."Alexis Madrigal, author of Powering the Dream"Compressing decades of competitive invention and behind-the-screen intrigue, Brian Merchant looks deep into the black mirror of the iPhone to tell us the prehistory-and cultural future-of Apple's addictive device. Packed with vivid detail, the book carries the reader from one unexpected revelation to the next with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical insight."Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk"This is a stunning book-a comprehensive, fascinating, and compulsively engaging account of how the most revolutionary product of our age was invented. You will ne
We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk to each other and do business, to how we exercise, travel, shop, and watch TV. But think again.The One Device is a Magic School Bus trip inside the iPhone--traveling into its guts, peeling back its layers, and launching explorations that take us to the driest place on earth and a Mongolian lake of toxic sludge, down the Silk Road, into 19th century photography, and all the way back to Cupertino, California, where members of the original design team reflect on the earth-shattering work they did.As multifaceted as the invention it follows, The One Device is a roving, wide-lens approach to tech history that engages the imagination as it explores the marvel of engineering that millions of us use each day.. But packed within its slim profile is the fascinating, untold story of scientific, technological, and business breakthrough