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No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-r

• ceejayoz 8y ago
  There may never be a better example of "what's compelling to techies isn't necessarily what's compelling to the general public" than that one.
  • icebraining 8y ago
    Yes, but CmdrTaco never claimed to be stating anything more than his personal opinion of the product. Slashdot wasn't HN, people weren't always making product-market fit predictions and discussing the financial of startups.
    • cmdrtaco 8y ago
      rise to my defense! (Also always lost in the mythologizing of this quote is that the first version of the iPod was not good. Mechanical click wheel, mac only, it took them a revision to disprove my statement!)
      • icebraining 8y ago
        It would be fair to say that misapprehension grinds my gears a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cmdrtaco+by:icebraining&type=comment&dateRange=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cmdrtaco+by:icebraining&type=c... :) Since I have your attention, thanks for all the good years of Slashdot! Hope you're doing well.