The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), 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 (including the all-important use of one's playlist as an indicator of coolness), 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.
Marko
2024-08-15
En bok som med en snabb överblick åldrats en del, men som förmedlar det som S. Levy är så bra på - måla upp en bild av hur det (måste ha) varit. Klockrena anekdoter, underhållande dialoger och, om än legendariska/kultförklarade, excentriska personligheter runt fenomenen. Skala bort det gamla och du har kvar kommersialismen, trenderna och "coolheten", från smedjorna i Silicon Valley/Palo Alto. Populärvetenskap när det ställs på sin höjd, med gediget researcharbete bakom. Svår att betygsätta som verk, men helt i min smak. Rekommenderar starkt även "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"
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