The Creation of The Ipod

1. This article illustrated the form of the Ipod. The article constantly talked about how the Ipod was designed and what it looked like. Near the end of the article they mentioned why the incorporated a scroll wheel on the Ipod, instead of plus and minus buttons. The designers thought that it would be better for scrolling through the songs faster. The article repeatedly talks about the form of the Ipod.
2. The factors that I would have to use to evaluate a "perfect thing" would have to be: simplicity, attractiveness, size, risk of damage, and how easily it can fixed. The "perfect thing" has to be simple and easy to use. If anybody can pick it up in use it, then it's perfect. For something to be truly perfect it has to be attractive in everyone's eyes. The perfect size varies depending on the purpose, thus for the perfect thing should be available in various sizes. The "perfect thing" should have a very low risk of damage and when it does get damaged it should be easily fixed.
   
3. The strengths of Ipod are it's simplicity and size. The ipod is very ease to use for the most part. Almost anyone can pick up an Ipod and listen to music or play video games on it. The Ipod also comes in various sizes, so people can choose what every size they want. The Ipod also has it's weakness's. It can be very hard to upload music onto an Ipod sometimes. The Ipod is virtually un-fixable. Once the Ipod is broken you only have two options; pay Apple large sums of money to fix it, unless you have the warranty and free repair plan, or buy a whole new Ipod.