“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… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“Originally, Siri was more colorful—it dropped f-bombs, teased users more aggressively, had more of a bombastic personality.” — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“The iPhone is not only the bestselling mobile phone but also the bestselling music player, the bestselling camera, the bestselling video screen and the… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“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… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“If we made the iPhone a millimeter thicker,” says Tony Fadell, the head of hardware for the first iPhone, “we could make it last… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“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.’… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“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… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“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… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs strode onstage at Macworld wearing his trademark black turtleneck, blue jeans, and white” — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“There was a problem, however: his battery kept catching fire. “There were some flammability issues,” Whittingham says. “We had several fires, mostly” — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
“The first calls from an Apple phone were not, it turns out, made on the sleek touchscreen interface of the future but on a… — Brian Merchant Copy Share Image
