CHM Live | Original iPhone Software Team Leader Scott Forstall (Part Two)

Scott Forstall discusses the creation of the original iPhone software, sharing stories about Steve Jobs and the development team at Apple.

[Recorded June 20, 2017] This is part two of two from the CHM Live show “Putting Your Finger On It: Creating the iPhone.” Watch Part 1—Original iPhone Engineers Nitin Ganatra, Scott Herz & Hugo Fiennes: bit.ly/2tluoLN Watch the Full Show—bit.ly/2sVP10E During 2006, the year before the iPhone was introduced, it seemed that innovation in mobile devices was beginning to slip away from Silicon Valley. Wireless computing was advancing more quickly in Europe than it was in the United States. That all changed abruptly when Steve Jobs stepped onstage at Moscone Center in San Francisco and asserted he was introducing “three revolutionary products” in one package—the iPhone. How did iPhone come to be? On June 20, four members of the original development team will join historian and journalist John Markoff to discuss the secret Apple project, which In the past decade has remade the computer industry, changed the business landscape, and become a tool in the hands of more than a billion people around the world. Lot number: X8247.2017 Catalog number: 102738283 © Computer History Museum