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You mean how like Apple was so original with an MP3 player?
by bosch 14y ago
You mean how like Apple was so original with an MP3 player?
- mattiask 14y agoI'm not going into an originality discussion, certainly that argument has been made thousand of thousand times on forums all over the internet. Very few companies are truly original. Even fewer are successful while being truly original. But having the guts to go all in, be consistent and going that little extra mile will get you pretty far.
- bosch 14y agoI agree with your thoughts about originality, but people always saying Apple does everything original is wrong. For both Microsoft, Apple and others they'll rarely ever launch something that's truly original. Apple's timeline was iPod > iPhone > iPad (You could even argue that without the theft of millions of songs aka MP3's Apple wouldn't be bankrupt). Microsoft's timeline was DOS > Windows > Server Products > Dynamics etc. I would say it's very rare that doing something completely different than your baseline business is going to work. For that reason and the fact that the shareholders want you to be profitable is why you'll not see very many established companies pushing the edge.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoYou mean a compact music player with a 2.5" HDD, room for 5GB of music, with 20 minutes of skip protection, a FireWire port for 50MB per second transfer, a click wheel for navigation, and a user friendly interface? Yes, that was pretty novel in 2002.
- jfoutz 14y agoNo wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
- acangiano 14y agohttp://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
- Turing_Machine 14y agoYes, Apple is more about "making the first one that doesn't suck" than "making the first one".
- zacharycohn 14y agoI had an Archos before the iPod came out. A tiny bit bigger than the iPod would be, but a 30gb hard drive, usb 2.0, and a much better way to find music than a wheel.
- kenjackson 14y agoArchos killed the iPod. The iPod was one of the first times I distinctly recall thinking that actual fashion (like Vogue magazine) could trump pragmatics and technology in the tech sector. A lot of people try to compete against Apple in design. Wrong. Apple isn't doing design, as much as they're doing fashion.
- polycom 14y agoIf they were doing fashion, they would change to a new look every year. Remember the disappointment when the iPhone 4S kept the iPhone 4 design? Apple doesn't care about fashion, they care about good design.
- msbarnett 14y ago1.8" HD. All of the other MP3 players on the market until then had been using 2.5", which was why the iPod seemed so much smaller at launch.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoYou're right! I remember it being one size smaller than the other HDD players at the time. I thought it was the 2.5" that had just come out, but it was 1.8".
- cma 14y agoMy iPaq had a 1.8" HD sleeve, played mp3s, and browed the web (with a different wifi sleeve..). Plus it had a sunlight readable display.
- coob 14y agoAnd where is it now?
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoThe first generations used what's called a touch wheel and buttons. The click wheel wasn't introduced until the 4th generation iPod.