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The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4<br />
iDESIGN<br />
fi On Evolving iTalk<br />
“Hindsight is always 20/20,” says Donovan.<br />
”As such, I’m pretty sure we would have<br />
done things differently with the iTalk Pro. At<br />
the time our initial thought was to simply<br />
reproduce the original iTalk in a bottom<br />
connecting form. ... I drew up a version<br />
with a matching chrome speaker grille and<br />
we thought we were done.” But getting<br />
sound out of the speaker was problematic.<br />
“We came to the conclusion that the most<br />
important aspect of the new iTalk should be<br />
its ability to take advantage of the new CD<br />
quality stereo recording feature of the new<br />
iPods. Maybe we’ll get it right next time.”<br />
im iFM, Griffin’s Longest-Developed Add-On<br />
“The original version of iFM was finished in late 2003,”<br />
explains Boone, “and was very close to releasing, but was<br />
killed because right when we were ready to ship Apple<br />
stopped including/selling the wired remote that the<br />
original iFM design was based around. I began working on<br />
the next version of the iFM in late 2004 and early 2005.” The<br />
early pill-shaped design was slightly modified and then<br />
released for Sony’s PlayStation Portable; the iPod version<br />
was re-designed to resemble silver iPod minis, and later for<br />
black iPods and nanos.<br />
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