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The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

4/5 ( ratings)

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary , revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.

Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years. In telling the story behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gadget raises a host of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions , and writes about where the iPhenomenon might go next in his new Afterword. Sharp and insightful, The Perfect Thing is part history and part homage to the device that we can't live without.

Language: English

Format: Audiobook

Publisher: Simon Schuster Audio

Release: October 23, 2006

ISBN: 0743561252

ISBN 13: 9780743561259

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

4/5 ( ratings)

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary , revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.

Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years. In telling the story behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gadget raises a host of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions , and writes about where the iPhenomenon might go next in his new Afterword. Sharp and insightful, The Perfect Thing is part history and part homage to the device that we can't live without.

Language: English

Format: Audiobook

Publisher: Simon Schuster Audio

Release: October 23, 2006

ISBN: 0743561252

ISBN 13: 9780743561259

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