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In addition to the already very thorough and well-considered comment replying to this, I just wanted to say that the iPod was one of the first MP3 players that
by entropicdrifter 2y ago
In addition to the already very thorough and well-considered comment replying to this, I just wanted to say that the iPod was one of the first MP3 players that was widely available with a full-blown hard-drive. The vast majority of MP3 players at the time had like 32-64MB of flash memory, if that (and still cost hundreds of dollars). The iPod had 5GB and 10GB models. Suddenly you could bring your entire CD collection with you anywhere. Yeah, there were a couple of competing models with similarly-sized hard drives, but the other comment covers why people spending >$400 on a fancy new gadget preferred the iPod at the time for its excellent UI/UX.
- 1-more 2y agoI only remember the ones about the size of a discman with 2.5" laptop hard drives. The iPod was, I think, the first one with a 1.8" HDD. When the Macbook Air first came out it used the same 1.8" HDD
- entropicdrifter 2y agoIn 2006 I got myself one of these: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_x830-review-123.php https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_x830-review-123.php That 1G of flash storage at the time was huge for a phone. This was before everybody had an iPod Touch or iPhone, of course. iPhones came out the next year but in my area hardly anyone had AT&T, so because of the exclusivity the iPod Touch became popular way before the iPhone in my area.
- vel0city 2y agoMy mp3 player around 2001 had 700MB of removeable storage. Buying additional storage was pretty cheap too and there were standardized cases to store a lot of that format.