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Apple Quashes pBop

Posted by pudge on from the oops dept.

mojotunes writes "The pBop (nee pPod) MP3 player mentioned on Slashdot a while back has been officially pulled by its creator StarBrite Solutions, apparently because of legal pressure from Apple. Well, duh. Who didn't see that coming?"

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  1. Re:History Repeating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For example, CmdrTaco had following to say about the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." Other trolls on the same page were about the same... so there you go. The experts had spoken, the iPod was truly "lame", while the superior ultra-compact Nomad was the way to go.

  2. it's hardly a copy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    the pPod was hardly a copy, at least not functionaly. all it had going for was the "look" of iPod. it's basically an mp3 player with a skin that looked like an iPod - not an emulated iPod, as it seems to be implied.

    didn't play AAC. doesn't work with iTMS. etc. etc.

    i'm surprised it got as much coverage as it did.

  3. Re:History Repeating by raga · · Score: 5, Informative
    Gates saw the Mac interface, not the Xerox interface (which, btw was quite different from the Mac interface.

    Here is the story as recounted by Andy Hertzfeld (one of the original "software wizards" to work on the Mac OS).

    This story by Bruce Horn (who worked at Xerox, and later was hired by Apple to join the Mac team) is a good recount of how the Mac interface came about.

    cheers- raga