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The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

A technology columnist for Newsweek goes inside Apple Computer and into the heads of millions of music lovers to show how CEO Steve Jobs and his team of engineers, programmers, and designers created a product that has become a business and cultural blockbuster.

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adult
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medium · 284 pages

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