The iPhone 4: A Story of Drama and Innovation
By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea — the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! — but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we did pretty much everything.
Apple was also already on an annual launch strategy, so we all knew there was another iPhone coming. Meanwhile, an Apple employee left a prototype in a bar, which was then bought by Gizmodo, taken apart, and published online, breaking the internet.
And that’s just the beginning of the drama! For this episode of Version History, we tell the full story of the iPhone 4, from its leak to its launch to the post-launch Antennagate backlash that was so fierce Apple CEO Steve Jobs had to give a press conference to address the issue.
The iPhone 4: A Turning Point in Tech History
It was also maybe the most influential: the iPhone 4 introduced Apple’s own chips to its smartphone line, was the first model to get off AT&T’s network, and became the default silhouette of smartphones for years to come. You can debate whether the iPhone 4 was the best iPhone ever, but there’s no question it was the most dramatic.
David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and longtime tech columnist and thinker Walt Mossberg get together to tell the whole story, from Walt’s long calls with Jobs to Nilay’s surprising (and sometimes entirely unknown) intersections with the story as it broke.
The Legacy of the iPhone 4
Walt’s iPhone 4 review and the Antennagate press conference are just a few of the many links to get you started on the whole saga of the iPhone 4. If you want to subscribe to Version History, there are two ways to get every episode as soon as it drops.
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