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A review by adithyavs
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
5.0
It’s very rarely you find a book that gives you a complete picture of a business, a product or a leader. The One Device by Brian Merchant is certainly one such book.
The most captivating thing about this book is that it gets into the details of Apple, iPhone and the people behind it with an exhilarating and often an anti-establishment perspective. This book is not a eulogy to an iPhone or the company that made it. The author is extremely critical of the company and its practices. But at the same time he does not take away anything from the Marvel that the iPhone is answerable usual that it brought forth.
Whatever his biases are, he fights them well and gives a very refreshing perspective into the whole affair of the smartphone revolution.
The most amazing thing about the narration and the book is the fact that it delves into details that it that you do not expect it to get into. The author talks about the mines where the minerals that go into the iPhone are mined, he talks about e-waste disposal, he talks about the mindbogglingly big assembly lines where the iPhones are produced and at the the same time he does not leave out the characters who worked behind the scenes to make the iPhone work. He does not allow Steve Jobs to take away the whole credit for iPhone as he did when he was alive.
The tone of the book is energetic and casual. But the same time it does not take away anything from the seriousness of the conversation that is in vogue.
It was a brilliant read and one book that I might think of shelving for a second read.
The most captivating thing about this book is that it gets into the details of Apple, iPhone and the people behind it with an exhilarating and often an anti-establishment perspective. This book is not a eulogy to an iPhone or the company that made it. The author is extremely critical of the company and its practices. But at the same time he does not take away anything from the Marvel that the iPhone is answerable usual that it brought forth.
Whatever his biases are, he fights them well and gives a very refreshing perspective into the whole affair of the smartphone revolution.
The most amazing thing about the narration and the book is the fact that it delves into details that it that you do not expect it to get into. The author talks about the mines where the minerals that go into the iPhone are mined, he talks about e-waste disposal, he talks about the mindbogglingly big assembly lines where the iPhones are produced and at the the same time he does not leave out the characters who worked behind the scenes to make the iPhone work. He does not allow Steve Jobs to take away the whole credit for iPhone as he did when he was alive.
The tone of the book is energetic and casual. But the same time it does not take away anything from the seriousness of the conversation that is in vogue.
It was a brilliant read and one book that I might think of shelving for a second read.