Wired has a great story on the development of the iPhone and how this little TOY has changed the wireless industry. It took a lot to get the iPhone to where it is today as well as inking a deal with a major carrier. There were a lot of concessions made by AT&T that were unprecedented.

Some of the highlights:

Work on the iPhone began in earnest around Thanksgiving, 2005, 14 months before its MacWorld 2007 debut

• The Apple/AT&T (then Cingular) discussions took more than a year to complete; AT&T gets a small percentage of iTunes revenue out of the deal

• Linux was considered as a possible OS for the iPhone but “Jobs refused to use someone else’s software”

You can read the entire story at Wired.

Wired Via CrunchGear

Thanks to Jerry for passing this along.