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Behind The Development Of The iPod nano
bonch writes "A Time Magazine article on the behind-the-scenes development of the iPod nano reveals that development work began just nine months ago, when the iPod mini was still a top-seller. Every internal component was redesigned and packed into every millimeter of the space inside. Famed Apple designer Jonathan Ives spent months on the tiniest of details, like the laser-etching of the logo and the roughness of the clickwheel compared to the smoothness of the rest of the exterior. 'I know you're not going to consciously find these details particularly appealing," says Ives, 'but I think it's the fact that we've worried about all of them that makes the product so precious.'"
For the same price as the 2GB iPod Nano, you could get a portable external USB enclosure with a built-in media player AND an 80GB 2.5" hard drive to slap in it. People willing to spend more could even go up to 320GB.
I just bought an MG-25 and I love it.
"Supported Formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA"
I think Apple should cut down on thier laser-etching quality control and try to give people a little more bang for their buck. Why get all caught up in the look of a case that's just going to get scratched to hell after a month anyways?
And I hope that 4GB nano is worth half its weight in gold because that's how much it costs!
This isn't unabashed bullshit, it's a comparison to the crap you might drag around in your pocket.
What, do Americans still carry physical tokens to represent their money? How quaint!
Indeed. That's one thing I've always maintained. Thank GOD for Microsoft. Say what you want about them, but they protected us from an Apple monopoly which would have been ten times worse than a Microsoft monopoly. At Microsoft was smart enough to embrace the idea of commodity hardware. If Apple had won, imagine the pain and suffering we would have gone through having only one supplier for both hardware and software. You can bet we would have lived with $10K computers for years in a stagnating market. It would have been an ugly battle until Apple was finally broken apart.
Microsoft arrogance is nothing compared to Apple arrogance.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Yes, and it's you stupid faggots who don't who end up taking 5 minutes to purchase a 2 dollar item as you use your debit card, and holding those of us with legal tender up.
I heard you can't store photos from one of the review sites . Is this true ?
Personally I'm waiting for the iPod Yacto.^ Details are a bit sketchy at this time but some expected features include:
* Incredibly small design! Only 1 cm x 1 cm!
* Connect the iPod Yacto directly into your brain for optimal performance!
* Store music directly in your brain!
* Features new DRM technology to further limit what you can do with your purchased music!
* New patented One-Blink (tm) interface (no one needs more than one blink!)
* Battery life now 3 times as long, bringing the total battery life to 9 hours!
* And much, much more!
^ Requires iTunes: Working Edition. Quicktime 8.0 will be installed without your permission.
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All that attention to detail and they still couldn't include the patent free ogg vorbis format. Apple truly sucks big corporate balls for eschewing this most important of standards. All you apple fanboys are salivating your way to a locked down DRM hell by continuing to buy these products. I just bought a new iRiver T10. Its not as cool as the nano, but the sound quality is great and it supports ogg...enough said.
Apple technician: "Steve, the iPod is known to have worse sound quality than the cheaper Creative, Archos, Karma, or iRiver".
SteveJ: "he has a point there Ives, and those muffling white earpieces won't help for long when all our customers get mugged"
Ives: "but I've spent months laser-etching the logo"
SteveJ: "that's true, and we can get Marketing to make a big point of this to the clueless drones who buy our shit, they will forget about the inadequacies of the product, form over function and all that"
AppleTech: "what about adding Ogg and WMA support, and allowing bi-directional transfer of files?"
Ives: "I've spent months on the roughness of the clickwheel compared to the smoothness of the rest of the exterior"
SteveJ: "ship it!"
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