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A Decade of Apple Oddities
harrymcc writes "It's been exactly ten years since Steve Jobs stood on a stage at Apple and explained to a surprisingly small group of journalists that his company was going to make a music player and call it iPod. Technologizer's Benj Edwards celebrated the iPod's first decade by rounding up a dozen iPod-related oddities, including the iPod-powered tooth cleaner, an iPod mount for a semi-automatic sniper system, and the classic 1958 Dieter Rams Braun FM radio that may have helped inspire it all."
You could help build a "quality community" by not karma whoring and/or trolling.
which is totally what she said
Yes, clearly we have all been brainwashed into buying into a stable, modern, graphical operating system that runs commercial (i.e. useful) software, has Terminal capabilities and more efficiency than any other OS. Silly us.
Oh, the Ferrari is special: it's an overpriced, unreliable, impractical car for guys who feel inadequate.
Even if all that is true, what does it tell you that virtually EVERY guy still wants one?
Nobody dreams about owning a Toyota Camry precisely because there is absolutely nothing interesting, fast, beautiful, fun or enjoyable about it.
Kind of like Apple products.
Right. And Windows is just a model of reliability...