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> famous article edited by CmdrTaco "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." (Nomads were pretty technically impressive at the time, but good luck fittin
by 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.