Steve Jobs' most impulsive decision
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As Apple tries to find its place in a new world, an impulsive decision by Steve Jobs becomes an adventure for a group of engineers that will change the future of technology forever.
0:00 Intro
0:32 Jobs' Fall and Return
1:10 The iMac
2:08 Napster and the MP3 Revolution
3:36 The Rise of MP3 Players
5:40 "We Have to Make a Pocket Music Player"
7:24 Tony Fadell
8:53 PortalPlayer
10:34 "Driving" Jobs
12:20 Finishing Touches
13:03 The Battery Problem
14:19 The Announcement
Corrections
10:00 This is particularly strange given that ARM was part-owned by Apple. I have no idea how they didn't have tools for Apple computers.
Thanks to Sfdx Show for doing the voice of Steve Jobs: / @sfdxshow
Credits:
Research and Script: LowSpecAlex, F4mi
Voice: LowSpecAlex
Editing: LowSpecAlex
3D Animation: Windy, Divye
Art: Maiku no Koe
Translation, Audio Editing, and QA: Henrique von Buren
Thumbnail: Maiku no Koe
VA Direction: Jesús Hernández/Dubbing Home
Sources:
About Audion: https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
General origin of the iPod: https://www.wired.com/2006/10/straigh...
About Fadell's story: https://www.macworld.com/article/2149...
About PortalPlayer: https://www.wired.com/2004/07/inside-...
About Apple using dev kits that only worked on Windows: https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-ca...
About the origin of the touch wheel: https://www.fastcompany.com/3016910/a...
About Steve Jobs throwing the prototype into an aquarium: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/H...
Nomad Jukebox price and details: http://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/tec...
The Lawsuit That Made MP3 Players Possible: Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc, 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999).
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaac, page 865
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Stock Footage from Getty