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iPod Turns 18: Here's What People Thought in 2001
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No Problem. Firewire 400 six to Firewire 800, Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3, Parallels, Lion, iTunes.
I bought a replacement battery from iFixit and did it myself. Took about ten minutes.
Not on the site back then, but the iPod was the first portable MP3 player I got because I liked the design. I wasn't interested in Rio types because the capacity was too little and the Jukeboxes because the device was too bulky. I didn't use Mac so the iPod was never really on my radar until the HP branded 4th gen model came out which I decided to get. I sold that when I got the 5th gen and still have that one stashed away somewhere.
Surely, Apple can figure out how to make multiple stable devices and OSs at once... at least they could under Steve Jobs.
I still have my Silver iPod Classic, 6GB (my first ever Apple device) that I got for my birthday in 2005. It has a special place on my desk at home because, for me, it started this whole love affair with Apple.
How is that defined as a "failure" exactly? Despite only being available only for Mac users, the iPod was the fastest selling mp3 player to ever hit the market. That's not a failure at all. Smaller market? Yes. Failure? No. And that trial run on Macs with iTunes and eventually the iTunes Store enabled Apple to convince the recording industry to take the Store to Windows...leading to what it eventually became. The reason the music industry even agreed to Apple selling music was that it was limited to 5% of the computer market to start, a safe beta test for them with little risk.
I don’t know why the negativity when the iPod came out and it is certainly a better alternative over CDs. I remember I had to get a CD case to keep all the CDs together when I went on road trips.
ya, yes... the clicker
With all the convenience noways, and Solid state, just gives users the freedom to toss stuff around in their pockets more without any sufficient damage..
The one ting you lacked even today, is price and storage...
Hard drives were cheaper and still is today when you compare price per gig with SSD.
It may be slow, but who doesn't want their entire music collection in a single place?
With all the convenience noways, and Solid state, just gives users the freedom to toss stuff around in their pockets more without any sufficient damage..
The one ting you lacked even today, is price and storage...
Hard drives were cheaper and still is today when you compare price per gig with SSD.
It may be slow, but who doesn't want their entire music collection in a single place?
Darth Tulhu
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The current iPhone is the opposite of this. You need A LOT of knowledge to operate it. It can do A LOT. And it's flexible as hell.
This device had buttons. It was absolutely simple to use. It didn't do much except play music and a few games I think.
My philosophy is: build BOTH. Simple stuff for average folks, power and complexity for us nerdy types. That Apple died with Steve. But man, what a sweet time it was!
Not a failure, but it's true that it didn't become a household name until iTunes was ported to Windows. Remember when Apple let Hewlett Packard rebrand the iPod as their own?
Darth Tulhu
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I was fully seduced into the Dark Side (OS X according to the Wintel crowd at the time) by then, and had a LOT of music, but I waited until the click-wheel no-buttons one (I forget which gen).
If you had a Mac, you had to get this as a music player. Sexy, functional, simple.
Damn, I miss Steve's Apple touch. This is opening old wounds. 😢
If you had a Mac, you had to get this as a music player. Sexy, functional, simple.
Damn, I miss Steve's Apple touch. This is opening old wounds. 😢
I think you have it backwards, no? Users loved their Macs for obvious reasons but grappled with being compatible with a Windows world. Windows users were dismissive of Apple's small market share. Similarly, Apple fans attributed Windows' popularity to herd psychology. Today, One could say that the herd's kids simply changed camps.
I think you’re looking at it with 2019 glasses. People wanted physical media back then. To the masses the brand Apple were just a company that made colourful computers. People were and to a lesser extent still are worried about what happens to their media if a company goes bust.
I was 17 back then and was more than happy with my mini disc player and ripping music from Napster.
No it wasn't! Can't compare it to initial sales of the iPhone but the iPhone sales rode in on the back of the iPod. It was so popular that a few companies had software to allow connecting to a PC. Those same companies and their fans cried "Sherlock'd" less than a year later when Apple announced Windows compatibility. Firewire cards on Windows were on the rise, you started seeing them at CompUSA.
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Are you comparing it to the MP3 Players that were out at the time cause all of them were the same.
As one of the few who actually owned a Nomad Jukebox I was getting an iPod the day they shipped.
I knew that iPod would be exactly what I need, and it was also the case. I still have it. No idea if it still works due to lack of a firewire cable but I am def keeping it. It was mind blowing - I am pretty sure I wrote much in the MOR thread
The creative Nomad Jukebox was the worst piece of hardware I ever owned.
It had buttons strewn randomly across the top - it made so little sense I had to consult the user manual to find the pause button.
Inexplicably looked like a CD player.
They ran on 4 AA batteries. I got rechargable ones but they lasted shorter than a full album.
Non-rechargeable AA batteries lasted 4 hours. Meaning, after 4 hours, you had to throw away four AA cells, and buy new ones! That's not just expensive, it's total consumerism insanity, even if you never thought about the environment this would probably give you pause. I knew that before buying but I thought rechargeable batteries would solve this.... kinda but then playtime dropped to 90 minutes and soon had to be replaced anyway. I ended up running it from the power cable in my car.
Everything about that product was horrible.
iPod came
10 hours playtime (easily)
rechargeable
fast thanks to itunes and firewire
stunning
tiny
best usability of any device - I remember giving them to a girl I met in Thailand. Totally clueless about computers and had never seen an iPod - she was able to play music on this thing within 5 minutes with no instructions. Oh yeah we got married later
I knew that iPod would be exactly what I need, and it was also the case. I still have it. No idea if it still works due to lack of a firewire cable but I am def keeping it. It was mind blowing - I am pretty sure I wrote much in the MOR thread
The creative Nomad Jukebox was the worst piece of hardware I ever owned.
It had buttons strewn randomly across the top - it made so little sense I had to consult the user manual to find the pause button.
Inexplicably looked like a CD player.
They ran on 4 AA batteries. I got rechargable ones but they lasted shorter than a full album.
Non-rechargeable AA batteries lasted 4 hours. Meaning, after 4 hours, you had to throw away four AA cells, and buy new ones! That's not just expensive, it's total consumerism insanity, even if you never thought about the environment this would probably give you pause. I knew that before buying but I thought rechargeable batteries would solve this.... kinda but then playtime dropped to 90 minutes and soon had to be replaced anyway. I ended up running it from the power cable in my car.
Everything about that product was horrible.
iPod came
10 hours playtime (easily)
rechargeable
fast thanks to itunes and firewire
stunning
tiny
best usability of any device - I remember giving them to a girl I met in Thailand. Totally clueless about computers and had never seen an iPod - she was able to play music on this thing within 5 minutes with no instructions. Oh yeah we got married later
I have an iPod 3rd Generation 2003 , but iFixit doesn't send batteries to Canada- where I live, but at least I know how to do it if I find the replacement. You were fast ! For mine time required is 45 min
Thanks for the tip though
Just for the record, I said from the beginning that the Apple wireless charging mat would be a game changer. When it finally comes out, you'll all be sorry.
But seriously, I still have my iPod mini and it works great. I will never part with it.
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Remember when 128kbps mp3's were good quality? It must've sounded like AM radio, but our caveman ears just couldn't differentiate.
But seriously, I still have my iPod mini and it works great. I will never part with it.
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Remember when 128kbps mp3's were good quality? It must've sounded like AM radio, but our caveman ears just couldn't differentiate.
My first iPod was a 20gb click wheel. I had an Archos 20gb Recorder for most of the early MP3 era (WinAmp, baby), and I loved that thing, didn't need an iPod, thought Apple stuff was fine but overpriced (at the time I would always take Microsoft's side in the ubiquitous online holy wars). But there was some website that promised free iPods if you did something like take a survey and get seven others to do it? Then there were other sites where people would post info to refer each other. I though it was almost certainly ********, but what the hell, I gave it a shot.
Lo and behold, they turned out to be on the level, as some time later I got an iPod (and t-shirt) in the mail! It had been so long that I had no idea where it came from at first. But the interface, connection to iTunes, size, and internal battery were upgrades, so I immediately dropped the Archos. I ended up rating thousands and thousands of songs on that thing in a massive project that must have lasted months if not years.
It turned out to be the camel's nose under the tent, as I eventually got an iMac, the first Intel MBP, and at one point my apartment was practically an Apple store. Intensely fond memories.
Lo and behold, they turned out to be on the level, as some time later I got an iPod (and t-shirt) in the mail! It had been so long that I had no idea where it came from at first. But the interface, connection to iTunes, size, and internal battery were upgrades, so I immediately dropped the Archos. I ended up rating thousands and thousands of songs on that thing in a massive project that must have lasted months if not years.
It turned out to be the camel's nose under the tent, as I eventually got an iMac, the first Intel MBP, and at one point my apartment was practically an Apple store. Intensely fond memories.
My first iPod is the 1st. Gen. Nano, it still works today and the battery can last 5-6 hours. It is the best partner of my daily sport time.
