About Vinnie Chieco
According to what’s written in several websites, while describing the player, Steve Jobs constantly referred to Apple’s digital hub strategy: The Mac is a hub, or central connection point, for a host of gadgets. This prompted Vinnie Chieco to start thinking about hubs: objects that other things connect to.
The ultimate hub, Vinnie Chieco figured, would be a spaceship. You could leave the spaceship in a smaller vessel, a pod, but you’d have to return to the mother ship to refuel and get food. Then Vinnie Chieco was shown a prototype iPod, with its stark white plastic front.
“As soon as I saw the white iPod, I thought 2001,” said Vinnie Chieco. “Open the pod bay door, Hal!”
Then it was just a matter of adding the “i” prefix, as in “iMac.”
The truth is, apart from what’s written above, I have no idea who Vinnie Chieco is apart from what everybody who has searched his name in Google knows: He is the copywriter credited as being the man who named the iPod and that he lives in San Francisco, California, USA, as stated in many websites.
I have spend endless hours looking for information about the man in Google, but it seems that nothing more than what is stated above can be found.
During my research about the iPod name, I came across a couple of websites with the name Vinnie Chieco, but it is not guaranteed that this is the same person who named the iPod. Anyway, I’ve decided to publish the following links, NOT as reliable sources of information regarding the person in question, but as mere curiosities about people named Vinnie Chieco across the USA.
On the website classmates.com I found a Vinnie Chieco that has studied at Tuckahoe High School, TUCKAHOE, NY, Class of 1976.
On the website msn.com I found a Vinnie Chieco who wrote an opinion about Teresa Heinz Kerry.
On the website findlaw.com I found a Vinnie Chieco involved in a process against WILLIS & GEIGER.
On the website uscourts.gov I found presumably the same Vinnie Chieco won the process against WILLIS & GEIGER.
On the website publicarchitecture.org I found a Vinnie Chieco that has contibuted to the article/brochure about architecture.
On the website campaignmoney.com I found a Vinnie Chieco that has contibuted for the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth “527″ campaign (found on the 26th of February 2008)
If you have any idea where can I find information about the iPod naming author Vinnie Chieco, please let me know.
All the links to sources in this page were retrieved and were fully working on 2007, January the 23rd, unless stated otherwise