From an article on the Wall Street Journal about Steve Job’s button phobia.
When the company introduced the iPod in late 2001, the most common calls to Apple’s technical support lines for a time were about how to turn the device, which lacked a clearly defined power button, off and on, says a former Apple executive.
Wow, I’d forgotten all about that. Years ago Will left his iPod at our house for a week or two and I had such trouble trying to figure out how to turn the damn thing on.
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July 30th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Ha! You weren’t trying to steal all the music on it or something were you?
August 24th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Fair point. It took me reading pages of Apple’s website to work out how to turn one _off_ without just leaving it to do it itself. And resetting the thing is another matter…
: P