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Not to instigate a thread regression, but FWIW, there's another
(older) article in Wired about the birth of the iPod (Wired seems to
like these kinds of stories!):
Inside Look at Birth of the IPod:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/
0,64286-0.html
The part I find particularly interesting concerns the polycarbonate
containers they placed the components into while testing
functionality. In the most recent article all that's said about them is:
> To make them easy to debug, prototypes were built inside
> polycarbonate containers about the size of a large shoebox.
(Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth:
http://wired.com/news/columns/
cultofmac/0,71956-1.html)
But in the older article:
> Knauss said all the iPod prototypes -- and there were several --
> were sealed tight inside a reinforced plastic box about the size of
> a shoebox.
>
> "They put the buttons and the screen in creative locations all over
> the box so people couldn't tell what product was inside it and how
> small it was," Knauss said. "They always put the controls in
> different places -- the scroll wheel on the side, the screen on the
> top -- to make sure it wasn't predictable what the end design was.
> The only thing accessible was the jacks."
...making the whole "birth of the iPod" story rather Rashomon-esque.
dave
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