10 revelations Tony Fadell, the iPod, "father"

Tony Fadell - the father of the original iPod and founder of Nest, which It was recently acquired by Google. At Hay Festival he talked about Apple and that the world knew about the technology while working at Apple.

It started when I was 3 or 4 years

My grandfather was a teacher and part-time superintendent of the school district in Detroit. He taught the young people of that time to many professions. Grandpa took under the wing of me and my brother when I was very small and began to teach us how to build birdhouses, repairing lawn mowers and bicycles. He said that man did all of these things and it is a man under the power to make them better. Do not give up! If something is broken, we will go and try to fix it yourself.

To work with Steve Jobs was very interesting

After we finished work on the first iPod and show it to the world, just a few hours we We returned to the lab and began to discuss what we did wrong and what should be done next generation. Just a few hours later. We have always said that the need to quickly celebrate, and immediately begin to move forward, to improve their product. And so it happened every time

When you create iPod, I spent all of the studies for six to eight weeks

I put together a drive, battery, circuit, put it all in a housing made of plastic foam, weighed, what happened with the help of fishing weights of my grandfather, and then proceeded to develop two more possible prototype. Steve, we've always done 3 variant of the device, because in fact 2 of them turned out to be awful. And now, after 6 weeks of work, I brought them and showed Steve.

I made a few buttons

And Phil Schiller, who still works at Apple, brought the wheel and said that we should do this on your iPod. I said I know how it works and already seven months later we launched the first iPod.

During the entire period of development, we are under stress, and Apple itself did not feel better

We believe that iPod «shoots». Its creation was a huge risk. We used a computer company, and when I came iPod people began to say, "Wait, Apple released the player? This makes no sense. This is terrible. It is very expensive and large. This product is destined to fail! "

Apple DNA exists

Many of the old staff were still at Apple, while Steve Jobs did not return. And when that happened, he seemed charged with energy all around. All strive for perfection, and so the world saw the iMac.

In 2006 I began to develop a design for their family at home

I wanted it to be energy-efficient and eco-friendly house. Then we worked on the iPhone, and when I first picked it up, I thought that it would be such interfaces worldwide. Not now, but maybe in the next 10 years.

Basically, no one likes thermostats

They have not changed since the seventies or eighties, and most people do not like them. All due to the fact that no one has tried to improve them. Basically, thermostats pick yourself installers. You do not go shopping and do not choose your own thermostat, as it happens with the smartphone. That is why we decided to sell thermostats near mobile phones. We have improved the thermostat and now look at the other unloved devices in the home.

I tested Google car without a driver. I'm from Detroit. I like to drive, but getting into the car from Google, you get an incredible emotion

We love to drive the car in a fun, but it is different from the daily scenario of its use. Often, you are distracted on the phone, write SMS and thereby raise the risk of getting into an accident. So it will be just great to have a mix of human-computer that will work in tandem.

When I read the book, I prefer paper-based, because the screens and so constantly surround me, and I want to get away from it all

When you read this book, you feel the smell, you can touch it and you will have no distractions. And if I have something to read on your smartphone, you constantly come various notifications that constantly distracted me and do not give to delve into a book. It is worth mentioning that there are use cases where smartphones more convenient, so I think we have to find a middle ground between the electronics and paper.

via (Telegraph)