Wired: How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry
January 22, 2008
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1
Screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways. Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their sleep. A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed whacks with an aluminum bat to free her.
This’ll tell you all about the less glamourous side of the iPhone, the tight deadlines, angry programmers and even angrier management. But it worked, and they got it out on time!