This article displays the way that an idea progresses from simply a vague concept, to a usable product, through Styrofoam and non functional models, to individual component models, to prototype usable models.
2)What factors would you use to evaluate a perfect thing?
Simplicity of design, of use, and of purpose. To say that anything is "perfect" is somewhat naive, but the ipod was the distillation of everything that a digital music player could be, and nothing more, the genius of the ipod is the simple lack of multifunctionality, it accomplishes a task in the most elementary way possible, Occam's Razor at it's finest.
3) Whether you own an iPod or not, you probably have some opinions of the is product. What do you feel are its strengths and weaknesses?
The iPod is, in many ways the exact oppisite of the iPhone. The genius of the iPod was the fact that it was a digital music player that fit into your life in an appropriate way and did it's job effectively and innocuously, in a smooth, clean package. The iPhone on the otherhand is essetially an electronic swiss army knife, and as a result fails to make obvious why exactly it is a must own product, as opposed to simply an expansion upon the cell phone as we know it.
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