Tony Fadell, the "Father of the iPod", shares some details on the development of the iPod and iPhone

Tony Fadell reveals some secrets about how he convinced Steve Jobs to make decisions the CEO didn’t want to make.

One of the most important people in the history of Apple has revealed a series of secrets or curiosities from his time at the Apple company. Tony Fadell, known as the “Father of the iPod” for being one of the most important people behind its developmentgranted an interview in which he spoke about the controversial decisions of Steve Jobs at the time of developing the iPod and the iPhone.

We all know that Steve Jobs He wasn’t an easy person, especially when things weren’t going his way, but Fadell talked about two key moments for the iPod and iPhone in which Steve had to give his arm to twist

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iPods and Windows

Apple’s idea with the iPod was to make music players accessible to everyone. However, as Fadell comments, Steve Jobs initially refused to offer iTunes on Windows computers. And iPods required iTunes to activate and sync music to the device, so by not offering the program, millions of users would be left without iPods.

Fadell championed bringing iTunes to Windows, but Steve didn’t see it that way.

From day one, I said, “We need to make sure this works with Windows.” And the [Steve] He said, “On my corpse, never.”

If the iPod hadn’t been compatible with Windows, it probably would have failed.

Fadell and the iPod team then contacted the journalist Walt Mossbergwho was also a friend of Jobs, to ask him for help in convince the CEO to make the iPod compatible with Windowssomething that eventually happened.

Years before the launch of the iPhone X, Apple was already imagining an “all-screen” iPod

Apps on the iPhone

Some don’t remember it, but the original iPhone came without the App Store. There was no way to install apps officially and Apple’s idea was to offer web applications that can be used from Safari

The CEO of Google at the time, Eric Schmidt, who then sat on the board of Apple, was one of the main promoters of web applications. which the original iPhone arrived with. Apple’s position was not to allow apps to be installed on the iPhone and to offer web apps. Something that could clearly benefit Google.

Jobs featuring the original iPhone

However, as we all know, web apps weren’t good enough. Steve Jobs therefore saw an opportunity to launch the App Store with iPhone OS 2.0 and offer an app store from which to download apps directly to the iPhone.

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