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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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Hello world
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.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple's products. But I wish someone would explain to me why they're so much more expensive than competing products. I can walk into Office Depot (!) and find MP3 players with more space and that cost less.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
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 $50 CD player.
Personally, I had money to burn, and I like music. I don't think it's the greatest purchase I've ever made, but it was worth it enough for me to pick one up off ebay for 150$
Some people like it, buy it and play music on it.
Others don't have a need for an iPod.
End of story - next news article please.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
4 years of history....that's getting deep
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?