Apple Engineer Reveals the Secret History of the iPhone
 

Apple Engineer Reveals the Secret History of the iPhone
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Apple senior engineer Greg Christie was part of the team that conjured up the iPhone back in 2005. **w, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal — preceding the next chapter in the legal battle between Apple and Samsung — 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 behind the iPhone as "shockingly small."

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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...

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