15: Building the Band (Part 3, Origin of the iPod)

Apple begins a crash program to build a music player by the end of 2001, aided by a fortuitous discovery in Japan. Hardware chief Jon Rubinstein recruits a brash young product manager, Tony Fadell, to figure out how all the parts fit together.

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Links and Show Notes:
Presented by Jason Snell and Myke Hurley.

Written by Jason Snell. Script development by Kelly Turner.

Thanks to Scott Knaster, Stephen Hackett, Matt Rollefson, Adam C. Engst, Jim Hunkins, John Buck, Harry McCracken, and members of the iPod team for script assistance.

Extra special thanks to Hansen Hsu and everyone else at the Computer History Museum.

Audio editing by Myke Hurley and Jim Metzendorf. Video production by Jamie Snell.

Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen.

References/Further Reading:

• The Perfect Thing (link.amazon/B0iRrcRUS) by Steven Levy

• Apple: The First 50 Years (link.amazon/B0h8XB9Cx) by David Pogue

• Steve Jobs (link.amazon/B07YvsjhV) by Walter Isaacson

• Apple In China (link.amazon/B07hawIGg) by Patrick McGee

• Build (link.amazon/B0itUUl9y) by Tony Fadell

• iCon: Steve Jobs (link.amazon/B0ewcx32O) by Jeffrey S. Young

• Becoming Steve Jobs (link.amazon/B0cCvP2nQ) by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

• John Rubinstein Oral History (computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717…) at The Computer History Museum

• Regis McKenna Oral History (archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/t…) at The Computer History Museum

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