Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Perfect Thing pg 176-201

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When the iPod shuffle came out people didnt think that it was tru randommneess in the shuffle.
The shuffle doesnt play the same songs over and over agian but only plays each song i your library exactly once.
Steve Jobs was fired as a cofuounder and came back in 1997.
Some people say that Steve Jobs was an accidental Millionare.
After Jobs took over the company the iMac became a huge success.
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How can Apple be sure that it was completely random?
What did the author mean when he said my fixation?
How does teh iPod make the listner an active participant in the music?
What is the DNA of music?
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ontological(pg 177): the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.
mandala(pg 179): a symbol representing the effort to reunify the self.
wigged(pg 188): To make or become wildly excited, enthusiastic, or crazy.
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"Life is random(iPod shuffle slogan)...Jobs was only six months past a horrible life threatning cancer scare"(pg 178)Irony. This shows irony because the cancer was also random and a life event.
"We're making it less random to seem more random"(pg 186)Oximoron. Two things that cotradict.
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This section fo teh book talks about how the iPod shuffles and also tlaks about the start of a great company under Stve Jobs leadership.

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