Abstract from ‘Smart or Crazy? What Steve Jobs Did with the First iPod Prototype’ by Henry Jay, 2 March, 2016.
“Steve Jobs announced the first iPod as a Mac-compactible product with 5GB hard drive that put 1,000 songs in your pocket. But before the event, something happened behind closed doors between Steve Jobs and Apple’s Engineers who produced the iPod.
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.
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. Finally, he stood, walked over to an aquarium, and dropped the iPod in the tank. After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.
“Those are air bubbles,” he snapped. “That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.”
And that was how the tiny size of the first versions of iPod came into existence. All thanks to the Genius Steve Jobs.”
https://medium.com/@wealthy_brains/smart-or-crazy-what-steve-jobs-did-with-the-first-ipod-prototype-3f8e7233cf14
Questions:
On the basis of the given abstract, your research, knowledge and experience answer the following in the Question and Answer format with minimum of 250 words.
Question 1- Assess the role Steve Jobs played as a leader in management and innovation of technology as he walked the engineers of Apple Inc. through the ‘challenges of technical team work’ while developing IPod. (2.5 Marks)
Answer 1 - Steve Jobs play a very vital role in the success of Apple.Under his leadership and innovation,Apples products become huge success in the world.The innovation of ipod affect the the music industry, hardware vendors, the labor market, artists.While developing the ipod Steve Jobs is in quest to make music portable.He bring the designer and engineers of the Apple together to create the Ipod. This idea is brilliant and singular and reached to the perfection,when many heads come together develop the ipod. This story tells that how Steve Jobs have a leadership quality to manage the team and collaborate to develop the Ipod.
The role of Steve Jobs as a leader and a innovation of technology is important in the development of the Ipod. According to Time Magazines, Steve Jobs needs to control the team and innovation because he was fastidious about the technology.Steve Jobs always said that “The innovation can’t happen fast enough. The integration isn’t seamless enough. No one takes responsibility for the user interface. It’s a mess.”He is one of the great leader and innovator in the field of the technology not because is was the engineer or the programmer.He don't have the MBA degree,but have a good leadership quality.As given in the case he have good capability to take a right decision at a right time, he knows that how to correctly use the innovation.which help him to develop the ipod. Jobs have a highly native sense of design and the knack of hiring the genius. which help him to achieve the organizational goals.
In the Sum up,Steve Jobs is a legendary figure in the world of technology and innovation.He is a task oriented leader who only focus on the problem and concerned to try to solve the problem in a innovative way.In the developing stage of ipod. Steve make a team of very excellent engineers and designers.who work under his leadership and develop the innovative product ipod
Abstract from ‘Smart or Crazy? What Steve Jobs Did with the First iPod Prototype’ by Henry...