The incredible story of Jobs and the first prototype of the iPod

Although we will never be able to know that, if we pay attention to what is said by who had direct contact with the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, the measures he took were sometimes very controversial, and his rejections of prototypes that the team design had already finished were not rare. They weren't in the sense that they were frequent, because otherwise, if we weren't used to the genius of the apple, we would probably be shocked by its forms. And proof of this is precisely the rejection of the initial iPod prototype.

Although the iPod is currently a device that has fallen into disuse and is now considered dead in the market, we cannot forget that at the time it was a small great revolution. Precisely for this reason, I think that knowing that Steve Jobs rejected the first of the prototypes because of its excessive size is something quite relevant. But the funny thing is not that Jobs seemed great, but the way in which he told the design technician who accompanied him, and that he protested because he thought his work was complete and there was no way to further reduce the dimensions of the device.

Steve Jobs saw an aquarium and threw it directly into it. Yes, the initial prototype of the iPod that had been brought to show him. Then, undeterred, he asked the engineer. Do you see that bubbles have come out of the terminal when it was thrown into the water? Well that means it has air inside, and if it has air, it is possible to make it smaller than it is. Obviously, the team went back to working on the initial idea but in smaller dimensions, which are what we later saw in the XNUMXst generation iPod. What do you think of the anecdote?