Apple Engineer Reveals the Secret History of the iPhone

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Apple Engineer Reveals the Secret History of the iPhone
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Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) senior engineer Greg Christie was part of the team that conjured up the iPhone (http://mashable.com/category/iphone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) back in 2005. **w, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal — preceding the next chapter in the legal battle between Apple and Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/apple-vs-samsung/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) — he reveals some of the fascinating details about the device's early history

Christie, who is credited with a patent for iPhone's "slide to unlock" feature, describes the original team (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579461783150723874?mg=re* *64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB1000 1424052702303949704579461783150723874.html) behind the iPhone as "shockingly small."

See also: The Comparative Anatomy of the Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 (http://mashable.com/2013/11/21/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-chart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


As Christie and the rest of the team were mulling over several ideas and concepts about how the device — then dubbed "project Purple" — would look and feel, an impatient Steve Jobs gave them two weeks to figure it out, or else he would assign the project to a**ther team. This lead to the earliest concept for the iPhone, which was envisioned as a mix between a touchscreen phone and an iPod, without a physical keyboard Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/apple-engineer-history-iphone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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