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Slashdot has a famous article edited by CmdrTaco declaring the iPod to be lame for not comparing favourably in tech specs to other devices. Jobs has always bee
by friendlybus 7y ago
Slashdot has a famous article edited by CmdrTaco declaring the iPod to be lame for not comparing favourably in tech specs to other devices.
Jobs has always been big on timing and marketing. He was watching multitouch since the 80s. Apple knew how to take developing tech and make it cool. Tech specs and innovation have always been 1/4 of the deal.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago“Jobs has always been big on timing and marketing.“ Totally agree. He was really good at seeing when all necessary ingredients for a great product were close to being available.
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- lukifer 7y ago> famous article edited by CmdrTaco "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." (Nomads were pretty technically impressive at the time, but good luck fitting one in your pocket, or finding the track you want in a collection of thousands.)
- huhtenberg 7y agodarkpuma> cmdrtaco is wrongly maligned, the ipod would not become massively successful until further revisions were released. cmdrtaco> Thank you for setting the record straight! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19447152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19447152
- jdminhbg 7y agoThey became massively successful without wireless, that's for sure.
- setpatchaddress 7y agoI think another bit of context that is often missed with this quote is that there was substantial rumor-mongering about what Apple was doing, and a lot of people were expecting something a little more obviously revolutionary or at least further-along-the-tech-curve than a design-optimized MP3 player.