Fewer people worked on these early products, and they were involved basically end-to-end, so the people involved collected a fair bit of interesting stories. i

Fewer people worked on these early products, and they were involved basically end-to-end, so the people involved collected a fair bit of interesting stories. iPhone development probably has tons of interesting stories associated with them, but those stories are spread out across so many people that you're unlikely to find a single person like Andy who knows many of them first hand.