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| Reminiscing about the iPod's intro, a Beatles irony, and trivia quiz for Mac heads: Who were the first artists and their songs to be "officially" demoed by Steve Jobs on the 5GB iPod! | | Date Created: 30 Mar, 2006, 12:25 PM |
 I'm in the middle of preparing a blog entry looking at some recent activities of mine centred around presentation skills, Overcoming Death by Powerpoint, and the advantages (and feature requests) for Apple's Keynote 3.
The feedback I've received from giving some presentations already has helped shape up the blog entry which is coming along nicely - deep, but nice.
So today, I was looking for some Steve Jobs keynote movies tracing the history of product introductions. Two fold purpose: reminiscing and wanting to use his keynotes as demo files for more presentations on... presenting. (As the song says, "Nobody does it better...").
So a little Googling about located this site, where you can download some QT movies for private use, I would suggest. Do bear in mind, these movies are very large: 70-250MB.
The first movie I downloaded was the official introduction of the iPod in October 2001, and it is classic Jobs. Big build up, then superb explication of why the iPod is a breakthrough product (not everybody thought so), and you get a glimpse of his vision in action, through the facilitation of hindsight.
This is where the "1000 songs in your pocket" meme began, and it is quite ironic that when discussing how the iPod with its 5GB hard drive enabled you to take your entire music collection with you (in the legal days before Morpheus/Kazaa become widely known outside of an underground following), Jobs showed a collection of CD covers. Figuring quite prominently are two Beatles albums ("A Hard Days Night" and "Abbey Road").
Take a look below, just behind Steve Jobs' right shoulder. (That object on the left is the overhead projector to demo the iPod's scroll wheel, below right)
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Indeed, being a little of an SJ student, I would say he personally chose the covers to illustrate the 1000 songs meme, including Bob Dylan, Moby, Simon and Garfunkel, and Miles Davis. |
When demoing the iPod, using an overhead projector so we see his finger scrolling, he makes the remark that he should have gotten a "finger model" because he chews his nails (they look manicured). And then he plays some music to demo the scroll wheel.
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For your chance to win a next gen iPod (just kidding) who were the first three artists he played to demo the iPod at its official release?
The fourth, to add further contemporary irony is the Beatles' "I should have known better" and SJ bops along and sings, claiming "I'm dating myself".
So who were the first three artists to ever be played on the official release of the iPod?
Scroll down for their initials to help you, and I've hyperlinked them if you MUST know straight away (the links take you to the actual song!):
1st. SM (links to Real Player clip)
2nd. BM (links to the lyrics)
3rd. Y-Y M (Easy!)
Have fun, 'cos Steve did (below) and he must have known what was going to happen to Apple shares in the next few years based on the iPod's success! |
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