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Steven Levy "The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness"
Simon & Schuster 2006 0743285220 / 9780743285223 Hardcover New
"Brand New, Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology — if not necessarily for its dominant market share — launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the company's wildest dreams. Over 50 million people have inserted the device's distinctive white buds into their ears, and the iPod has become a global obsession. The Perfect Thing is the definitive account, from design and marketing to startling impact, of Apple's iPod, the signature device of our young century. Besides being one of the most successful consumer products in decades, the iPod has changed our behavior and even our society. It has transformed Apple from a computer company into a consumer electronics giant. It has remolded the music business, altering not only the means of distribution but even the ways in which p... ID: mon0000003514"
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Steven Levy "The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness"
Simon & Schuster 2006 0743285220 / 9780743285223 Hardcover New
"Brand New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, some light cover edge wear() The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White. Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years. In telling the story behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gadget raises a host of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions (including the all-important use of one's playlist as an indicator of cooln ID: mon0000032223"
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