Dave Gustafson pointed to a great Gizmodo post that looks at the absurd place the clickwheel iPod has gone over the years with all the functionality that slowly got added to something that originally was designed only to play music.
“To put this eyeball cacophony into perspective, the new menu system has over 60 places to [...]
Apple finally got their phone. I had two immediate reactions. It’s fantastic that a company has released a touch-screen phone that’s hitting the mass market. I hope this is a wake up call to other manufacturers: touch-screen devices are not just for the high end PDA market. Second, I’m very interested to experience text entry [...]
Stephen Levy writes about the creation of the iPod.
“There was another surprise to come. Schiller asked, “Can I bring out my thing now?” He left the room and came back with a number of different-size models of a playback device – big ones, tiny ones, in all sorts of shapes. They had one thing in [...]
Henning Fischer writes about the process of creating the iPod.
“It’s a given that the digital music player market wasn’t exactly saturated in 2001, but Jobs’ back of the napkin analysis of the opportunity space was clever in its adherence to simplicity. He compared traditional CD players, Flash-based units, Mp3 CD units and hard drive jukeboxes [...]
Forrester says: focus on the important stuff, resist feature creep.
“Don’t obfuscate the core function of the device. Learn from the mistakes of the iPod photo—focus on your device’s primary function and market additional capabilities to consumers who are already sold on the core purpose. Although the iPod retained its photo-viewing capability, the return to [...]
It’s not just about playing the music.
“DJ at a club. No need for turntables at some clubs these days. Some DJs just play from their iPods and some clubs even invite patrons to plug-in and play something from their own personal iPods.”
“Find good NYC pizza. The piPod software will guide you and your musical friend [...]
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