WHY I POD

WHY I POD

The "I" theory Ipod..Iphone..Itouch - Whats different in ipod ? How can a product revive an entire company ? How can a small product become a generation icon and culture .What there in IPod and not in any other MP3 player ...its just a user friendly small music playing gadget .

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is it the "I" factor ...concept of personalization of music ?? but the sony walkman did the same
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ability to purchase one song instead of a complete album ******
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itunes ...no way it the worst music playing piece of crap
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Marketing ....I don't think we see as many ads of ipod and they were not ground breaking .Although i liked the ad completely made by fans .
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timing of the launch ...during the 2001 bubble burst ..may be people wanted some thing to look forward or positive...but should be same as any other good product launched that time ....are their any

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the hardware design of the product itself ??? but except from the wheel i dont see anything ground breaking in the design

and infact all apple design are copied/inspired from Dieter Rams work ..

Read this post
http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future

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the software part ...but its just another music playing with general features ...although the touchscreen is revolutionary ...
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Steve job factor.....naa I don't think people where really admired steve before ipod
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was it a beginning of a new generation ...the true digital age ....the transition from analog to digital cultures ...
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or the brand image of apple that did it ....but apple was in trash before ipod happened

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or it is a due to peer to peer marketing phenomenon

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is it the secrecy of apple about its products and updates
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macworld ??
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Macs made Ipod or Ipod made Macs
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does apple produces what consumer wants or make consumer wants they produce

I have no idea what made ipod where it is today ...these are just random thoughts that hit me ......what do ya think?

Who says the new generation is getting isolated from the real world

Who says the new generation is getting isolated from the real world because for internet .......I believe they may be physically getting isolated but they are no less connected to the world .More Connected to the real world means that they know more of what going around the world and around them . Consider the life in past without internet and email ...people used to stay in touch with letters and phone calls and how often may be once a month may be never ....now with the internet and web 2.0 websites like twitter ,myspace blah blah .coms you are in touch with all of your friends each and every day ...and with twitter like applications you can know what exactly your friend is doing every moment .

Best things that you can discover your very very old friends that you lost track of and you had no idea where they were and what they were doing ...isn't that great ...i have meet friends from my school days whom i never thought will meet again in my life .

Nowadays people are more inform about the whats going on in the world due to internet news feeds rather relying on TV news which is very biased and where britney spears latest screw up is more importantly then ..whats happening in dafur and zimbabwe .More importantly TV news are only one way communication which is very passive wherein on internet news websites are two way communications channels where you can express your views freely about any topics by posting comments for the news ..