Best of - Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell: Inventing the Future

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Fifteen years ago, a sleek pocket-sized device was introduced that would change much about how we interact in the world: the iPhone. This is the intimate history of the two men who created it. Steve Jobs famously co-founded Apple. In the late 90’s, when the company was failing, he hired a young engineer and designer named Tony Fadell, who created a little device that became known as the iPod. It not only turned Apple’s fortunes around, it transformed the music industry and the experience of listening. Fadell’s next assignment was the iPhone, which changed the nature of communication itself. After leaving Apple, Fadell went on to found Nest Labs, a company that has begun to alter the technology of the home. You’ll hear Tony Fadell’s fascinating personal story, told with all the passion and enthusiasm he brings to his game-changing inventions. And you’ll hear Steve Jobs, speaking as a young man (in 1982) about what it takes to innovate. This episode originally posted in 2016. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016-2022

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Alice.
0:04.0	Take a moment and try to remember what your life was like 15 years ago.
0:10.0	If you were on a road trip and you wanted to find the closest coffee shop, how did you do it?
0:16.0	If you were at a coffee shop and you were trying to remember the name of an actress,
0:21.0	or look for jobs, or check your calendar or shop for sneakers or
0:26.2	see if your mom wrote you back or send a picture to a friend of the cupcake on your plate.
0:31.9	However did you do it? It's kind of hard to remember how we did
0:36.3	a lot of things 15 years ago before the iPhone was born and transformed our lives. The iPhone was released for sale on June 29th, 2007, but here's Steve Jobs
0:49.9	announcing its creation to a pumped-up crowd six months earlier.
0:55.0	Today we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class.
1:03.0	A wide screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone,
1:08.0	and a breakthrough internet communications device.
1:12.0	An iPod... an iPod, a phone.
1:15.0	A phone.
1:17.0	Are you getting it?
1:20.0	These are not three separate devices. This is one device.
1:28.0	And we are calling it iPhone.
1:37.0	Even Steve Jobs could not possibly have imagined the impact of his device.
1:44.0	Jobs, of course, owned and ran Apple,
1:46.0	but the engineer who developed the iPhone for Apple
1:50.0	was Tony Fiddell.
1:52.0	He is a new book out getting great reviews called
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