New York Magazine has a very nice piece on Steve Jobs and the iPhone. If you aren’t familiar with the history of Jobs and Apple, this is a great biography, and even if you are familiar, it’s among the best-written histories we’ve encountered. This iPhone-relevant passage is particularly interesting:

Apple’s competitors, by contrast, find the prospect of the iPhone terrifying. “The entire fucking Western world hopes that it’s a case of imperial overstretch,” says the CEO of one of the planet’s largest communications companies. “But everybody is quietly saying, er, what if people want to buy a $500 phone? What if, er, people have been waiting for a device that does all these things? What if this thing works as advertised? I mean, my God, what then?”

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