Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the 1-800-CEO-READS Award
One of the Best Business Books of 2017 - CNBC, Bloomberg, 1-800-CEO-Read, Financial Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"A remarkable tale... the story it tells is compelling, even addictive--almost as addictive as the iPhone itself."―
Wall Street Journal"Like the best historians, Merchant... unpacks the history of the iPhone in a way that makes it seem both inevitable in its outline and surprising in its details."―
The Guardian"Apple's culture of secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in
The One Device....Merchant tells a far richer story than I--having covered Apple for years as a journalist--have seen before... The iPhone masquerades as a thing not made by human hands. Merchant's book makes visible that human labor, and in the process dispels some of the fog and reality distortion that surround the iPhone."―
Lev Grossman,
New York Times Book Review "A fascinating story."―
Marketplace"Merchant does the important work of excavating and compiling large numbers of details and anecdotes about the development of the iPhone, many of them previously unrecorded... Merchant tells a far richer story than the outside world has seen before."―
Minneapolis Star-Tribune"Brian Merchant takes readers on an epic journey."―
Parade"Brian Merchant gives us a rare look inside Apple, chronicling the development of the iPhone with details about everything from the selection of raw materials to the product's famous launch event."―
Gizmodo"Fascinating... the author writes in the style of a fast-paced novel, with vivid details that help readers really understand how the iPhone was devised and launched."―
John Rampton,
Entrepreneur"A wild ride."―
San Francisco Chronicle