Apple Ended Up Creating the iPhone Because Steve Jobs Hated Someone at Microsoft

Apple’s iPhone is without a doubt the most popular smartphone in the entire world, and after learning that Steve Jobs originally planned the device to launch with two different buttons, we come back with another different story regarding the early days of this product.

Scott Forstall, former SVP of iOS Software at Apple who left the company nearly 5 years ago, explained in interview that Steve Jobs decided to start work on a tablet (which was eventually converted to smartphone) after being annoyed by someone who worked at Microsoft and bragged about new tablets and pens that were under development at the software giant.

The whole thing started when Jobs met the husband of a friend of his wife, with Forstall recalling that every time the two met, all he heard was how awesome everything at Microsoft was in terms of new devices like ta...