IPod Shuffle

After reading the chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be…

*On September 20, 2017, Tech Manufacturing Company received its typically supply of 5,000 computer chips for the payment amount of $10,000. My company remains one of your long-term contracts for over 10 years transactions; Computer Solutions Inc has been supplying our company with excellence computer chips. This long-term relationship was built on a number of shared views such as providing fast efficient product and ensuring customer satisfaction is at highest level possible. *Unfortunately,…

Americans enjoy three things in life when purchasing something. The product must be cheap, trendy and benefit the home countries economy by producing a good. However, it is nearly impossible to find all three aspects in a product. As 2015 is coming to a close, it is virtually impossible to find items produced in this country. All American companies have found it to be cheaper to produce goods in other countries. This phenomenon is called outsourcing. Outsourcing is useful because the companies…

Apple Corporation has advertised that the new 4G iPhone has an eight hour battery life using standard operating procedures. Just what are standard operating procedures? Is it a fully charged battery phone a) sitting on the counter, b) used by granny to call the doctor, or c) miss social butterfly talking to her 20 friends and five boyfriends?…

The biological parents of Steven Paul Jobs were told to give him up by the parents of his biological father. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs on the promise that they would make him attend college. He was mischievous as a teenager, but grew interest in building things. He would take apart different appliances to learn how they worked and how to build them. At just age 13, he was given a job for the summer working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1967, Jobs met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak became…

Let's be honest, stupid ideas can grow into a serious business venture. Once-laughable business concept with no common sense, often made their inventors get the last laugh. We've compiled a list of top ten stupid ideas that actually worked. Stupid Idea Number One: The Pet Rock Children love pets. But who would imagine that a rock could substitute an animal? Who would exppect people to buy rocks instead of dogs or cats? Well, the California guy named Gary Dahl, is actualy the one who did. He…

Never has a man been so focused, so driven, and so obsessed with completing a goal. This need to achieve was Jobs’s biggest strength and his greatest weakness. Steve Jobs spent years trying to perfect the computer, then the iPhone, and finally the iPod. During those years of victory and triumph, however, Jobs left many behind. He missed out on a daughter, parents, and friends. Yet none of this saddened him. He was so immersed in creating his product that he did not stop to realize the life he…

Akiva Epstein English Mrs. Van Gundy 4/24/2018 Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is one of the most influential figures in American history, whose ideas have reshaped not only the American society but the world at large. From inventing the Apple I computer to the iPhone's, Jobs has reinvented the way businesses do business while keeping to his core values. He also changed the way the world viewed technology and the amount of people with technology. Even after he passed away in 2011, Jobs’ has continued…

company founded by a man named Steve Jobs, along with his longtime friend Steve Wozniak. Apple, since the beginning, has revolutionized the technology world through numerous computers, then it continued to “revolutionize the music industry with its iPod player and iTunes online store”(Derek, 2016). Apple incorporated, has shaped the way we look at computers, tablets, and music for the last 40 years. Apple started its journey with the Apple I, this is what put them on the map. Only 200…

The Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. or better known as Foxconn has been accused of violating labor rights of workers for many years and the Apple situation is no exception. The employer keeps its hard working people in overcrowded dormitories run by military-like security forces. Because these people work excessive hours, one would expect them to be paid well maybe even overtime but that is not the case. Often hard work goes with no compensation for overtime, which even yet the…