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A Brief History of the iPod
antdude writes "MacSlash mentioned MLAgazine's article on a brief history of the iPod. It all started on October 23, 2001 with the release of one of the most important products from Apple in its history."
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Here's a brief history of the iPod:
First, Apple designed the iPod. One day an engineer came in succinctly blitzed and designed the horrible "I-ain't-seen-this-shit-since-Intellivision" circle navigation wheel thingy. The hippie fruits at Apple all applauded.
Then they bought usage rights to some second-rate cheap ass songs that never got played on the radio anyway, and used them to promote the thing. Said no-name bands became more famous because of the constant never-ending barrage of commercials. "Honey, if I do say so myself, this Black Eyed Peas song is rather good! I absolutely hated it the first 48,000 times I heard it but now it's starting to grow on me!"
Then Apple deployed their proven strategy of making the device look better than it actually performs, thereby luring thoughtless dimwits and college freshmen with enormous piles of high interest credit cards that they somehow "needed" one for Christmas.
Then when people realized that the music they were downloading for free was somehow supporting terrorism, and they were probably going to be castrated in town square, they needed another method to fill up the bottomless hole that is the iPod (seriously, who the hell needs to have that many gigs of mp3s with them at all times?). But wait, Apple was here with a solution! You can download the songs for a low low price, and it's legal! Oh...and the artists still get fucked! Yay! The RIAA can rest easy. iTunes is here.
And a legend was born.
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Calling a karma hoes,Any mirrors?
Precisely how mad is "barking mad?" Is that the point at which you express your displeasure by standing in front of stores that sell Ipods and unleashing your canine fury?
Oh, wait...
You must think in Russian.
I can just hear Apple crying.
"Please, please buy one! We'll think about adding it in a future firmware upgrade, please, Steve needs to buy a new turtle neck!"
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
...sounds like a scottish pyschopath!
:-]
Jaj
I can think of many women who'd like a rugged black joystick ..
Perhaps you just move in different circles.
...album after five years in the business*, then why not have a story on the history of the iPod, which is bound to be more interesting?
* The all-time record for "most pointless 'greatest hits' album" goes to early-90s dance music purveyors TKA, whose third (yes, THIRD) album was "Greatest Hits."
Caution: Linky NSFW.
Dr. Freud
Technology meets Transportation.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
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:-D
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port
Raise your hand if you have both
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
~LoudMusic
October 23rd, 2001. Priceless.
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