Story of the iPhone may become limited TV series


A book telling the chronicles the history of the iPhone has been optioned for a limited TV series. The One Device by Brian Merchant digs into the people who brought the original iPhone to market.

The Hollywood Reporter:

Echo Lake Entertainment has optioned author Brian Merchant's The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone with an eye toward developing a limited series. No studio or outlet is attached yet. 

The book tells the story of the creation of the iPhone, which Apple's Steve Jobs referred to as "the one device," via interviews with engineers, developers and inventors who worked on the project. It also delves into how the then-novel ideas of touch screens, motion trackers and AI have become commonplace in the decade since the iPhone launched.