iPod

"I grew up and I remember when I bought my iPod — it was impossible, and I was buying a secondhand iPod on eBay back then because Americans were having this product and it was not being sold in Europe yet. There is that kind of form — 'Listen to a ..."

"They had a piece of software that was really elegant and it worked, and these guys understood the culture. They had a really good idea, an elegant way to match their iPod."

"The last time that it was easy to listen to your own work-in-progress music was with the iPod. Because the iPod obviously had the beautiful connection between iTunes and the iPod — it was easy to upload the files from your computer to iTunes, sync..."

"The iPod helped them realize that — going with Windows and all that. But will they fall into a Microsoft-like trap?"

Garry Tan

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"I remember getting an iPod and doing competitive research for Windows Mobile versus the iPod."

"We knew that the iPod was coming because of Jimmy's relationship with Steve. We all wanted to buy stock in Apple and the stock was like nine."

Founders Podcast

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"Apple is going to sell 450 million iPods. When Jobs first pulled the iPod from his jeans pocket, the reaction from the audience was muted. Early reviewers were just as skeptical, with one saying that the iPod stood for idiots price our devices."

"We co-created some of the most innovative and beautiful and popular products in history, the iPod, the iPhone, the Nest thermostat."

"iPod was the he led the team that created the iPod and he co-founded Nest, the smart thermostat company. He now mentors entrepreneurs and he says the most important advice he gives them is write the press release first."

Cal Newport

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"You can carry a thousand songs in this one device, no skipping, and you can with a scroll wheel quickly shoot through albums to get to exactly the songs you want to listen to."

TBPN

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"the iPod was starting to really gain traction and an iPod was a semiconductor product"

"it truly revolutionized music. And it really gave us a whole different perspective of what services can do. When you take the hardware product in a sense, the operating system and the software and the services and you tie them together"