Now, the idea of Apple — with its billions in the bank and tens of thousands of staff — being short on manpower might seem strange, but 2018 is shaping up to be a pretty pivotal year for iPhone.
BK: I'd read enough to know that Thompson had spent this year abroad in the early 1960s, reporting on Cold War issues from South America, and it occurred to me this must have been a prettypivotal time in the life of a writer I admired.