Quote by Brian Merchant

“Originally, Siri was more colorful—it dropped f-bombs, teased users more aggressively, had more of a bombastic personality.”

— Brian Merchant

“No. Not Shang hi. Hang zoo.” Smog”

— Brian Merchant

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Where are. You from?” “California.”

— Brian Merchant

“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

“Steve Jobs strode onstage at Macworld wearing his trademark black turtleneck, blue jeans, and white”

— Brian Merchant

“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 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