> That's because some people should think harder about their comparisons before they verbalize them. The quoted comment poo-pooed an existing product that you c

> That's because some people should think harder about their comparisons before they verbalize them. The quoted comment poo-pooed an existing product that you could buy with a mere trip to one's local Apple retailer. cmdrtaco was also criticizing the product as it existed at the time, not the product it would evolve into which, in retrospect, made his criticism seem ridiculous. He was criticizing the first revision which had poor connectivity (firewire only) and little storage (5GB on launch, 10GB later.) The fourth revision, the one that actually became a run-away success, had 20-60GB of storage and was the first to have full USB support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#/media/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#/media/File:Ipod_sales_pe...