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And so it continues, I point out that this has been said of every Apple announcement since Jobs' return.
by saturdaysaint 11y ago
And so it continues, I point out that this has been said of every Apple announcement since Jobs' return.
- epmatsw 11y ago"No wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
- MagnumOpus 11y agoYup. It was. And no USB either, also not usable with Windows, not usable without Firewire. It was utterly useless for 99% of people out there - Rob Malda was right, despite all the retconning. It took years and several hardware generations to actually fix all these problems...
- lotharbot 11y agoin 2001, it was. Check out the sales figures [0]. Consumers didn't begin to adopt the iPod in detectable numbers until the third generation (when it got USB syncing), and it didn't really take off until the fourth (full USB connectivity, various other improvements.) [0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/ipod-sales_n_4680000.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/ipod-sales_n_468000...
- etchalon 11y agoIt look off when they added Windows. Other improvements aside, that was the thing that cracked open the market for them.