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Tony Fadell

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1037 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

The team that I was running, we were really clear that we had to have Windows connectivity out of the gate.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Or not out of the gate, but just after the first iPod ship.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

And Steve said, over my dead body, no way.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

This is going to help us sell more Macs.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

So and then and then, you know, we're like, OK, we're making the second one.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Oh, we're going to keep it with Mac only.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

We just got to fix a few of these things.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

And then all of a sudden it'll take off.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

And it was like it didn't take off.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

So then it was a long story about how that about how we finally got Windows connectivity.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

But there was always this skunk works thing project behind the scenes doing that.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

I did the same thing with stylus.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Steve never wanted a stylus on the iPhone or the iPad.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

He never wanted, he never wanted it.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

He's like, the finger is good enough when we can't do it with the finger.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

It's like, and I'm like, we're going to have the B2B context and we're going to have form spilling and people are going to write.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

And, and he's like, I don't care.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Just do,

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

that means we're going to get to like windows pen.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Cause he thought it was going to be like windows pen, which was, you had to use the pen for everything as opposed to using your finger.