Steve Levy’s iPod Book
Newsweek reporter Steven Levy’s The Perfect Thing, which ships on the iPod’s 5th anniversary Monday, is exactly what you’d expect from Levy: Straightforward, often first-person reporting on the iPod’s birth and boom - he recounts arguing the definition of “cool” with Bill Gates - with a playful hook thrown in.
Levy is so convinced that Shuffle is a disruptive and defining component of iPod culture that each copy of the book comes with the chapters shuffled in a different order. At the same time, though, Levy details the years of meticulous work that went into stripping down the iPod to the right set of minimal features that make it so iconic.
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