Inside the high drama of the iPhone 4

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and incomplete idea, and there was only the iPhone only I got to copy and paste! — but it was clear that these large panels of glass would change the way we do almost everything.

Apple was also already working on an annual launch strategy, so we all knew there was another iPhone coming. Then an Apple employee left a prototype in a bar. Gizmodo bought it, dismantled it, published all the sordid details, and pretty much broke the internet. Thus, the story of the iPhone 4 began long before the launch of the iPhone 4.

And this is just the beginning of the drama! to This episode of Release datewe tell the full story of the iPhone 4, from its leak to its launch to the backlash that followed the Antennagate launch that was so fierce that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had to hold a press conference to address the issue. David Pearce, Nilay Patel, and longtime technology columnist and thinker Walt Mossberg They come together to tell the entire story, from Walt’s long calls with Jobs to Nilay’s surprising (and sometimes completely unknown) intersections with the story as it breaks.

You can debate whether the iPhone 4 is the best iPhone ever (and you better believe we do), but there’s no doubt that it was the most dramatic. It was also perhaps the most influential: The iPhone 4 introduced Apple’s own chips to its smartphone line, was the first model to exit the AT&T network, and became the default silhouette of smartphones for years to come.

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