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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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Raising non-news to a new level today?
trackpads - apple stuck w/ rollerballs when other laptops were using trackpads. apple was a late adopter.
speech recog - ibm os/2 (w3 or w4? can't recall) had this as an OS built-in while mac was still at system 7.2, which had no speech recog
"the powerbook" - it's a laptop; there were laptops before the powerbook was launched - what about the powerbook did you think was innovative?
quicktime - it's a media wrapper; other media wrappers existed prior to quicktime
"the mac" - it had innovative features for a pc, but it was still, essentially, just another sequential release for a pc company.
Now, the newton was definitley innovative; at the time there was nothing comparable. The duo -may- have been the first docking laptop - can't say, don't recall, but i'll give it to you anyway. p2pfs out of the box - didn't know they did that. Seems unusual.
The battery on the iPod blows. Mine didn't even last a year. This whole Apple craze is blown out of control and Wall Street is partly to blame. This is only going to end in disaster.
I have one, they're neat, but they're totally overrated.
I figgure people who hype them up so much do it to reduce their own cognitive dissonance that they spent $400 on something with only slightly more functionality than a $50 CD player.
Personally, I had money to burn, and I like music. I don't think it's the greatest purchase I've ever made, but it was worth it enough for me to pick one up off ebay for 150$
stop the hype, stop the insanity!
What a good argument=) Clearly I can't argue with that=)
Come on boys. Is that the best you can do?=)
If features the iPod is the wrong choice!
How about unparalleled ease of use?
Seamless integration with iTunes?
Ohh... you're still bitter there's no iTunes for Linux or worthless Ogg support.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?