The iPod

In the article “The Perfect Thing” the creators behind the iPod came together to solve many of the problems that where preventing the success of the MP3 player. They took the obstacles head on. First they sought out a way to give the iPod more memory than all other devices on the market. They found a hard drive that was 5 gigabits and was incredibly small. They also wanted this product to be about pocket size so that it would be easily transportable, yet still have a lot of song capacity. The battery for the iPod would have to have a much longer life span in order to make it practical. They also wanted the iPod to be an appropriate weight to have a little substance. the design that they came up with looked like a little box with a screen at the top with the command buttons bellow this. The real key innovation of this product was the scroll wheel; it aloud the user to scroll through artists, albums and songs at their own speed and ease. The wheel enabled consumers to find a song out of 1000 different options very quickly. The creators where also very set on making this product durable. They tested this product to make sure it would stay durable for its owners. Even though people were amazed by his product it is not perfect.
A thing may be amazing, or beautiful, or efficient but it can never be perfect. If given the opportunity to think of new addition for a product or thing there will always be new ideas. This is shown in the industry which is always coming out with new version of the iPod that my look different or have more functions. So I really don’t think that anything in this world is absolutely perfect because being perfect is subject to point of view. Some things that people consider when they think about their own view of perfection maybe elegance, strength, color, size, shape. But every person has their own thing or things that they look for.
I think that the iPod is a great music player. It provides a quick easy way to find any song, even out of a large collection. It has excellent battery life if you do not watch movies. It also has many great new setting like, on the Touch you can access the internet or with the iphone you can take pictures or run computer programs. Apple’s product has come so far sense its original version and I am sure it will keep innovating. Some of its weaknesses are that it concentrates on being good at so many things that some of its new or old additions may be compromised. Its battery life while watching movies is not sufficient either. Over all I think the iPod and the rest of its family members are amazing products and I am heavily anticipating their next upgrade or creation. But yet they will always still come out with these upgrades because they will never be able to reach that perfect product that everyone agrees on.