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78 CREATE THE STORY<br />
cents a song. We studied all these, and that’s where we want<br />
to be [points to “hard drive” category on slide]. We are introducing<br />
a product today that takes us exactly there, and that<br />
product is called iPod.<br />
With that, <strong>Jobs</strong> introduced the hero, the iPod. The iPod, he<br />
said, is an MP3 music player that plays CD-quality music. “But<br />
the biggest thing about iPod is that it holds a thousand songs.<br />
This is a quantum leap because for most people, it’s their entire<br />
music library. This is huge. How many times have you gone on<br />
the road and realized you didn’t bring the CD you wanted to<br />
listen to? But the coolest thing about iPod is your entire music<br />
library fits in your pocket. This was never possible before.” 2 By<br />
reinforcing the fact that one’s entire music library could fit in a<br />
pocket, <strong>Jobs</strong> reinforces the hero’s (iPod) most innovative quality,<br />
reminding the audience that this was never possible until Apple<br />
appeared to save the day.<br />
After the iPod’s introduction, Knight-Ridder columnist Mike<br />
Langberg wrote an article in which he pointed out that Creative<br />
(the maker of the original Nomad Jukebox) saw the opportunity<br />
in portable music players before Apple and unveiled a 6 GB<br />
hard-drive player in September 2000; Apple followed with its<br />
first iPod a year later. “But,” he noted, “Creative lacks Apple’s<br />
not-so-secret weapon: founder, chairman, and chief evangelist,<br />
<strong>Steve</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong>.” 3<br />
”I’m a Mac.” “I’m a PC.”<br />
The “Get a Mac” advertising campaign kicked off in 2006 and<br />
quickly became one of the most celebrated and recognizable<br />
television campaigns in recent corporate history. Comedian<br />
John Hodgman plays “the PC,” while actor Justin Long plays the<br />
“Mac guy.” Both are standing against a stark white background,<br />
and the ads typically revolve around a story line in which the<br />
PC character is stuffy, slow, and frustrated, whereas the Mac has<br />
a friendly, easygoing personality. The ads play out the villain<br />
(PC) and hero (Mac) plot in thirty-second vignettes.