Myles Penniman
9/29/12
For my creating culture of innovation class on tuesday, we had to pick a innovator or innovation and present a ten minute slideshow on it. I chose to do my presentation on the invention of itunes and the Ipod.
After finishing this project I was astounded by how much impact and effort Steve Jobs had in apple products. Unlike other CEO's of other big compaines, Steve jobs not only presented the finished product he designed it. Steve Jobs did everything from deciding the price of a song to designing the apple stores layout.
The common theme with all apple products is simplicity and design. The ipod is a perfect example of this. Unlike a lot of the music players at the time, that had a lot of buttons, the first generation Ipod only a one simple wheel. As they improved the models of the Ipod, they would only get lighter and slicker. For example the first ipod weighted over two ounces, and the ipod shuffle second generation only weighed 0.55 ounces. The simplicity of the ipod only got simpler, from the ipod wheel to only one simple button on the ipod touch.
There was a lot of things I already knew but even more things that were new and fasinating to me. Some interesting facts I learned were,
-Apple bought SoundJam MP and re named it itunes.
-The iPod's wheel technology can measure changed in position greater than 1/1,00th of an inch.
-By 2007 the Ipod accounted for nearly half of all apples sales.
-Ipod batteries can last between 14 - 28 days if they are not used at all.
Depending on the model of iPod, the battery will continuously play music for between 8 - 20 hours if fully charged.
-The worlds most expensive Ipod was auctioned off at a charity auction for $40,000
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