The original iPhone’s development was an epic undertaking cloaked in layers of paranoid secrecy.When Apple’s smartphone went on sale on June 29, 2007, the world was dominated by flip phones and Blackberrys with tiny keyboards. People carried iPods for music, Palm Pilots for calendars, and compact cameras for photography. Putting all those things into a rectangle that fit in your pocked seemed crazy. Doing it without a keyboard was even crazier.Ten years later, details have come out about what it really took for Apple (AAPL, Tech30) to create a brand new gadget that changed the world. These are some of the stories of how the iPhone was born.The iPhone exists because Steve Jobs couldn’t stand someone at Microsoft”It began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft,” said former Apple executive Scott Forstall during a recent talk at the Computer History Museum.
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