Birth of the iPod

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @02:14AM from the little-bit-of-history dept.

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.' "

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Favorite Line by Ancient+Devices+King · 2004-07-21 02:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

My favorite line from the article:
"Knauss said Jobs' influence was sometimes idiosyncratic. For example, the iPod is louder than most MP3 players because Jobs is partly deaf, he said. "They drove the sound up so he could hear it," Knauss said."

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Re:Apple is dying: Sell stock now. by e1618978 · 2004-07-21 03:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

I think that you need to take another look at the balance sheet - you didn't notice that they paid off $400 million in debt, so (cash - debt) went up.