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>If Jobs had the same insight into music as he had into tech, we'd see way more hip hop, electronic. You can be on the cutting edge of music without liking hip
by phaus 7y ago
>If Jobs had the same insight into music as he had into tech, we'd see way more hip hop, electronic.
You can be on the cutting edge of music without liking hip hop or electronic music. The problems wasn't the genres he picked, but the incredibly generic band choices within those genres.
I do like hip hop (and electronic is slowly growing on me), but that doesn't mean that everyone that doesn't is out of touch. There's interesting music coming out of nearly every genre in 2019. That's the way it always is.
- malvosenior 7y agoTotally. The choices were bland within the genres they represented. Still, as a music player with, at the time, incredible storage it seems like having a bunch of genres represented would have showcased the iPod's capabilities better.
- scarface74 7y agoI can’t think of any good hip hop that came out before 2001 that wouldn’t have been too controversial for the sensibilities of corporate America.
- phaus 7y agoThat's true. I remember that there was a shitstorm of controversy over Kriss Kross' Jump when it first came out. Not saying its good, just an example of something incredibly mild that was almost too much for America's sensibilities at the time.