Birth of the iPod

b00le writes "There's a little story over at Wired about the genesis of the iPod from the point of view of Ben Knauss, a former senior manager at PortalPlayer, the company Apple Computer approached to help develop its player. There's some nice gossip about The Steve's involvement in the project, the extreme secrecy and so on, but for me, the kicker comes at the end: 'Knauss stayed on until near the end of the iPod's development, but quit shortly before it was released because he had no confidence it would be a success. "It was probably a mistake, but then you have to go with what you think at the time," he said.' "

Comments

Re:Honest Question

[Bigbutt]

I received mine as a gift. I was interested in buying one but the price was the killer for me. Same with the PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz I recently bought. I needed a new laptop and wanted to play with the new system but the price was higher than I wanted to pay. Fortunately it costs me about $100.

Having only used a couple of mp3 players, I think the thing I like most is that I don't have to have a CD wallet along with the device. Since most of my music is located on it (only the ones with 4 or 5 stars to keep it to the 20Gig limit), letting it randomly play music surprises me with songs I may not have heard in a while.

On a recent trip to Athens, I only needed my laptop and ipod and had all my tunes and tools with me.

Re:The Pete Best of the iPod

[Snork Asaurus]

My guess is that most people here will miss the joke by about 2 generations. For those who don't get it: Pete Best.