As part of the iPhone’s 10th Anniversary this month, The Wall Street Journal has published a short video which looks at how this revolutionary device came to be. How the iPhone Was Born: Inside Stories of Missteps and Triumphs features interviews with three Apple employees key to the device’s development: Tony Fadell, Greg Christie, and Scott Forstall. Topics include how Apple originally envisioned the iPhone, the range of initial prototype designs, and what it was like to work under pressure from Steve Jobs.
Check It Out: Former Apple Execs Discuss the Origins of the iPhone
interesting tidbit about how they solved the keyboard speed, by predicting the next possible letter(s) and increasing the the “hit area” for those letters on the screen