Inside Look at Birth of the IPod

Wired news has a story by a guy that was a senior manager at the company that Apple choose to build the iPod. Apparently the iPod and iTMS was dreamed by an independent contractor and hardware expert called Tony Fadell, and it was created as a complete business process. Tony Fadell, who now works for Apple, went around all the major manufacturers trying to sell his idea but nobody would buy (bet they're kicking themsleves now), until he came to Apple. Who snapped it up and built it with Steve Jobs putting alot of his time into it, basically making it the player that he wanted (including boasting the volume as Steve is apparently partially deaf).