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The iPod has turned into a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a fresh vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing just how we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the original music industry as nothing you've seen prior. The look itself has become iconic: there exists even a shade of white now called iPod White.
Steven Levy has already established rare access to everyone at Apple who was simply involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over two decades. In telling the storyline behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gizmo raises a bunch of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions (like the all-important use of your respective playlist as an indicator of coolness), and writes about where the iPhenomenon might go next in his new Afterword. Sharp and insightful, The Perfect Thing is part history and part homage to these devices that we can't live without.
