Vergecast special edition: Brian Merchant, author of The One Device
We’re doing two episodes of The Vergecast this week: the usual one on Friday, and this very special edition with Brian Merchant, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.
We ran a big excerpt of the book earlier this week, so we spent the show talking about the book, where it came from, and Merchant’s feelings on how we should know more about the technology products in our lives. This includes knowing more about the hundreds of people who make them, from the unsung engineers at tech companies to the extremely unsung miners who dig the raw materials out of the ground.
And, of course, we talk about the quotes from Tony Fadell and Bill Bilbrey in the excerpt we just published, in which Fadell tells a story about Phil...