A review by dellaposta
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant

3.0

Full of interesting tidbits and stories, and pleasantly in-the-weeds on the history and development of the iPhone. However, the book is organized in a pretty non-intuitive way that makes it really difficult to keep track of the “characters” enough to care about any of the personal stories. I also felt like the author never exactly lands on the right tone (tough and critical or hyperbolically positive) or scope (sometimes glossing past jargony concepts and other times becoming overly digressive on centuries-old history) for the book. Still a good read for anyone interested in this history.