Author: Andrew Liptak
Over the last year, I’ve been reading Brian Merchant’s The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, the story behind Apple’s ubiquitous phone. While I’ve read it off and on for the better part of a year, it’s an engrossing read, delving into every element that makes up the phone, from the battery to the camera to the teams that designed and produced it.
What struck me the most about the book isn’t so much the design and creation of the device itself, but the impact that it’s had on the people who manufacture it. It’s not a pretty picture, and there’s a horrific toll that accompanied its creation. Merchant looks at working conditions of lithium mines in South America and Foxconn’s factories in China, the rise in deaths of cell tower...
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Over the last year, I’ve been reading Brian Merchant’s The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, the story behind Apple’s ubiquitous phone. While I’ve read it off and on for the better part of a year, it’s an engrossing read, delving into every element that makes up the phone, from the battery to the camera to the teams that designed and produced it.
What struck me the most about the book isn’t so much the design and creation of the device itself, but the impact that it’s had on the people who manufacture it. It’s not a pretty picture, and there’s a horrific toll that accompanied its creation. Merchant looks at working conditions of lithium mines in South America and Foxconn’s factories in China, the rise in deaths of cell tower...
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