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>>Apple was WAY late to the MP3 player party. If you think of the iPod as an MP3 player, sure. But I think Apple tapped a brand new market with the iPod: the "
by enraged_camel 11y ago
>>Apple was WAY late to the MP3 player party.
If you think of the iPod as an MP3 player, sure. But I think Apple tapped a brand new market with the iPod: the "fashionable gadgets" market. Arguably, that's the main reason it was incredibly popular.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 11y agoI'd say the Walkman gets that honor, if not some other product. The iPod was popular because it was the first practical MP3 player. Take a look at the competition: http://www.examiner.com/list/five-portable-mp3-players-that-arrived-before-the-ipod http://www.examiner.com/list/five-portable-mp3-players-that-... You've got reasonably sized devices that could hold a few dozen megabytes, or impractical tanks that had real capacity. The iPod was the first to do both. It also had a user experience that was quite painless.