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[Fact of the day] #3 Steve jobs and the ipod.

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▤Fact Of The Day▤
When the first prototype of Apple's iPod was shown to Steve Jobs, he dropped it in an aquarium and used the air bubbles to prove there was empty space and it could be made smaller.
The Prototype:
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When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his approval.

Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it.

It was too big.

[img]http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/first-gen-ipod.jpg[/img]

The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was simply impossible to make it any smaller.

Jobs was quiet for a moment.

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Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium, and dropped the iPod in the tank.

[img]http://freakinfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ipod-water.jpg[/img]

After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.

[img]http://il5.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/4002211/thumb/1.jpg[/img]

“Those are air bubbles,” he snapped. “That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.”

[img]http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4ea4384e6bb3f72a33000006/steve-jobs-presented-the-first-ipod-10-years-ago-today.jpg[/img]
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☛Fun Fact ☚
Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.

[img]http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/steve_jobs_AP070611032783.jpg[/img]
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☛Another Fun Fact☚
Steve Jobs was dyslexic
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FactOfTheDay: The more you know the less you need.
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#UPDATED: Edited the title.
What a smart & great man making his billions of poor kids in China.
Wow,, Suprised this wasnt another useless mr.robot thread
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Thanks for exposing how stupid someone was and used an anecdotal fact to look intelligent. Shit thread.
(Jan 25, 2016 08:30 AM)CocoaNut Wrote:  What a smart & great man making his billions of poor kids in China.

Yep he is smart.


(Jan 25, 2016 08:31 AM)21st Century Schizoid Man Wrote:  Wow,, Suprised this wasnt another useless mr.robot thread

Lmao


(Jan 25, 2016 08:31 AM)Obli Wrote:  Thanks for exposing how stupid someone was and used an anecdotal fact to look intelligent. Shit thread.

If you don't like this fact,perhaps you like some of my others.
Check them out:
#1 https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5144246
#2 https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5145348
"The more you know the less you need." Because knowing about steven jobsy will get me far.

keep it up interested stuff sir
damn he was a great and smart person
(Jan 25, 2016 08:35 AM)Dcypha Wrote:  "The more you know the less you need." Because knowing about steven jobsy will get me far.

keep it up interested stuff sir

Thank you very much.
Next time i will make sure that you could learn something really helpful from the thread.


(Jan 25, 2016 08:36 AM)༺คק๏ll๏༻ Wrote:  damn he was a great and smart person

Yes he was. 😉
But it was kinda awful for the engineers 😏
HE NEVER WROTE A SINGLE LINE OF CODE?

wow mind blown
I might be wrong, but I think steve jobs has wrote a line of code before, he just has never released a product that contained a line of his own code.
(Jan 25, 2016 08:50 AM)Seifer Wrote:  I might be wrong, but I think steve jobs has wrote a line of code before, he just has never released a product that contained a line of his own code.

Steve Jobs Never Wrote Computer Code For Apple.
That was a good read, thanks for sharing, add spoilers for pictures tho.
Can you include sources w/these please?
(Jan 25, 2016 08:54 AM)Sahaj Wrote:  That was a good read, thanks for sharing, add spoilers for pictures tho.

To be honest,i don't know how to make spoilers >.<


(Jan 25, 2016 08:54 AM)thales Wrote:  Can you include sources w/these please?

I don't think its necessary but here is the source:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-job...nt-2014-11
(Jan 25, 2016 08:56 AM)kmz22222 Wrote:  To be honest,i don't know how to make spoilers >.<

(spoiler)(img)(/img)(/spoiler)

Replace () with [] 🤝


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