In row five of the Moscone Center, the engineers who built the iPhone pass a flask and drink each time their part of it works. This is their chapter: Wayne Westerman, whose hands hurt; Bas Ording, who made a list bounce; Ken Kocienda, whose keyboard guesses what you meant; and Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber, whose chip once ran with its power supply disconnected. A fingertip, it turns out, is a bag of salt water.
This chapter has not been serialised yet. It will appear on Substack first, and this page will carry its opening when it does.
- In this chapter
- Andy Grignon, Wayne Westerman, John Elias, Bas Ording, Ken Kocienda, Scott Forstall, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber, Steve Jobs
- The idea it builds
- Capacitive touch: a grid of rows and columns, a table of numbers, and the dent a finger makes in it; then a keyboard that scores what you probably meant.