Agreed. For what it is, the iPod is still best-in-class, mostly because all competitors have withered away over the years. It shows the iPod's strength as a media player, which is so well integrated into Apple's overall ecosystem. Of course, it helps a great deal to have iOS. Development continues.
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iPod Turns 10 Years Old Today
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Agreed. For what it is, the iPod is still best-in-class, mostly because all competitors have withered away over the years. It shows the iPod's strength as a media player, which is so well integrated into Apple's overall ecosystem. Of course, it helps a great deal to have iOS. Development continues.
it is called "music" now?
It is no longer called iPod on my iPhone. It is just music now. Has it always been this way?
It is no longer called iPod on my iPhone. It is just music now. Has it always been this way?
completely agree, you have to move/push forward, taking risks and keep improving your product. You can't rest on your successful technology 'laurels' otherwise in a few short years you'll be left behind by the competition!
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And those features were just wasted on the 5th gen Nano, the 6th gen brought back the device's true purpose. To play music and be out of the way. If you want video, cameras, big screens and useful apps, the Touch is the device to go with.
The shuffle isn't as useful as a Nano is, no playlists, no selecting songs visually, no nothing really. The nano offers control and convenience, the 6th gen really is a great device.
Really sad to see Apple not paying attention to one of the best products - Nano is pretty useless (compared to 5th gen), Touch didn't get any update, Classic is dead in Apple's eyes
here,here!
There's still a need for a device like iPod. Unlike phones, music players don't have contract and serve specific needs (iPod Classic for example). Just stop defending Apple's moves with reasons that don't even make sense.
Agree with the reason, wish Apple doesn't kill the iPod line
I stopped participating on slashdot around that time, in large part because it was filled with people too stupid to understand the advantages of the iPod.
One thing I've learned is, these people never eat any crow. They never learn. A few years later they're not even aware that they thought that.
It's like android fans now. Too stupid and too dishonest to even talk to. It doesn't matter what you say. Their minds are immune to reason and facts.
They heard someone claim that multitouch was invented 30 years ago, so they insist Apple didn't invent anything. They don't care that it isn't true, it just gives them an excuse not to think.
It's about ideology. Their ideology has replaced thinking.
Unfortunately, this is so common among people that a genuinely rational person like Steve Jobs looks like a genius by comparison.
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All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field is starting to warp Steve's mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off.
Of course, ten years later, the iPod has sold over 304 million units.
Statements like this give me a warm smile.
2011 and we still have naive commenters, here and elsewhere, convinced that they have it right and Apple has it wrong.
My favourite of late has been those commenters who berated the iPhone 4S because "it doesn't have a removable battery".
Ten years on, and they still don't get it!
Of course, ten years later, the iPod has sold over 304 million units.
Statements like this give me a warm smile.
2011 and we still have naive commenters, here and elsewhere, convinced that they have it right and Apple has it wrong.
My favourite of late has been those commenters who berated the iPhone 4S because "it doesn't have a removable battery".
Ten years on, and they still don't get it!
My point was that the original iPod release was not a runaway hit. That's all. It took a few concessions and changes for Apple to make it so.
And how hasn't the Mac taken off ? It's selling quite nicely and Apple is one of the big OEMs for consumer PCs.
If you look at the sales chart on Wikipedia, they didn't take off until the 4th gen came out — the first one with just the touch sensitive clickwheel (no buttons, or rather the buttons underneath the wheel), which also happened to be the first MP3 player of any brand with a UI that I liked.
(It was also the first one that allowed USB charging, but I don' think that was a huge factor.)
That was the first iPod line-up to sell over 2 million a quarter (in Q4 2004) and over 4 million per quarter in Q5 2005 — and every quarter after so far.
I wonder why you would say that, and I never understood why people seemed to like those usability horrors. The first usable iPod was the iPod Touch. The Click-Wheel interface was a nightmare to use - those old iPods only worked okay when they were connected to a computer and controlled by iTunes.
By the time I got mine (early 2002) the reviews were glowing of it. The only downsides were price (which made people all the more envious) and that it only worked on Macs. By that time though there were software solutions to make it work on PCs. The product was heavily desired early on but it was the following year when it was released for the PC that sales took off.
So true ... I mean, at the time, how could they've ever predicted the iPod would become the best selling mp3 player? It took apple at least four years to secure that position.
To the OPs of the thread: Hindsights a bitch, and she's ****** you over
To the downvoters: Who predicted that the 4S would double the sales figures of the 4, with nearly no visual design changes?
But frankly, between the Nano and the Touch, there really isn't much room for things like the Classic. It's only a very few users that actually want to drag around so much music they can't possibly listen to it all in a reasonable timeframe. Call them hoarders or whatever, but do the Classic unit numbers really justify R&D/marketing that would be required to refresh the thing ?
Back then, any "competing" music player could hold a grand total of 1 CD.
You can't compare it with the devices of today, but in its time it was the greatest
I still have mine.
An excellent product and the beginning of making Apple into the mega company that it is today. It really put Apple on the map with the general population.
I don't understand why you feel Nano shouldn't do anything other than playing music. Its not like having more features would affect its music capabilities. Let me take an example, Kindle is better than iPad for reading. That is NO reason for Apple to exclude books functionality.
Oh they do, trust me...the same kind of crow is also being eaten every day by those, normally Winblows or Craptoids fanboys, who bashed the iPhone and the iPad as "fads" or "failures"...
SJ's vision and innovation were unique in the sense that he not only perfected platforms, but also created needs that weren't even there in the first place...
My iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Classic continue to serve their purpose with no problems...
Not only is it a great ipod but I used one that i swapped at 20gb drive into and used it at work as a mobile imaging drive. Being Firewire 400 it was actually pretty fast to boot off of.
Thanks iPod
Thanks iPod
This is a classic example of how many technologists are focused on specs and not the big picture. They can't see the forest for the trees.
Had Rob Malda (Slashdot's CmdrTaco) bought a hundred split-adjusted shares of AAPL that day (split-adjusted price of $9.07 a share) instead of shortsightedly blasting the iPod, he would have today an investment worth $39,287, an ROI of +4100%.
Heck, even if it took him three years to come aboard, he still only would have shelled out $23.70 per share, an ROI of +1500%.
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