CHM Live | Putting Your Finger On It: Creating the iPhone

Computer History Museum
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A Computer History Museum live event on how the iPhone was created, in a fireside chat format with people involved in building it. They discuss the decisions and internal debates behind the first iPhone.

HN people recommend it as one of the better first-hand accounts of how the iPhone came together.

Mobile & touch interfacesProduct design & product thinking
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@pmg2025 · in “Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)”
tldr Jobs put two teams to work on the iPhone development- the iPod team led by Fadell and the iPad team lead by Forstall (Apple began work on the iPad before the iPhone, though Jeff Han’s 2006 TED talk changed everything). Fadell presented an iPhone prototype with click wheel. Jobs went with Forstall’s concept. Much later, Forstall became pretty unpopular and few people had qualms with Fadell taking credit. A lot of this is covered in various CHM fireside chats - this is a good one: ▶ this video
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