“I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!Why oh why would they do this?! It’s so wrong! It’s so stupid!” -Poster in a 2001 MacRumors thread.[...] Thanks to EztliNahua for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 2776 Diggs).
What other user say about this:
Katana314: It’s actually kinda funny…no matter how much you make fun of these guys, they make good reasons why the iPod SHOULD never have been popular. Just goes to show the mac community has degraded into idiots who just buy the product.
hypercrypt: @fuzzmeister
I agree with you totally. I think the first generation iPhone will sell quite a lot. All I was saying is that even if it did not, Apple will release newer versions until it does succeed.
EDIT: Sorry it is in the wrong place…
seraph82: Ah the good’ole days – when Macs were retarded little boxes for the technology weenies that actually bought into those crappy commercials.
What the hell happened? It’s as if it’s fashionable to be incompetent nowadays…
vanfanel: An interesting follow up would be to see how many of those naysayers now own an iPod
jamesvaughn: I still agree completely with the quote in the title.
Cosmochemistry: Just shows you how far a little marketing can get your products these days
morsosky: does anyone else have the problem of digging loggin you out all the time. When i use gmail im logged in whenever i visit the site. For some reason digg makes me log in every time and yes i do click the ‘remember me’ box. It is very very annoying!
Promomag: Archos
Jukebox 6000
The Archos Jukebox 6000 was one of Archos’ very first portable media players. Comprising of a 6 GB Hard Disk Drive, this was one of the first of its kind. This player is only MP3 compatible, and was bundled with Musicmatch Jukebox to allow users to rip their music collection onto the jukebox.
This was one of the first Hard Disk-based portable audio players, and at the time was relatively expensive. The robust and chunky design did somewhat hinder its portability but due to the large disk capacity, the Jukebox proved to be popular.
The player came in metallic silver and metallic blue. This device also has a 1-bit charcell LCD screen with two lights above showing power and HDD activity. Also, like Archos’ other products, this is also connectible to a hifi with its line out source, which was ideal for portable DJs.
The Jukebox 6000, and it’s successor the Jukebox Studio (see below), used standard USB 1.0 technology, transferring data at a maximum rate of 1 MB per second. These models transfer data at a comparably slow rate compared with succeeding Archos devices using the USB 2.0 standard.
This device was released Saturday, December 9, 2000 and discontinued as of Friday, May 16, 2003. It weighs 350 g.
The Jukebox is historically notable for shipping with a user interface and operating system so unfriendly and bug-ridden as to inspire Björn Stenberg and other programmers to begin to develop a superior, open-source replacement operating system. This project became Rockbox.
Archos Recorder 20 Audio Player.
Archos Recorder 20 Audio Player.[edit] Jukebox Studio
The Archos’ Jukebox Studio succeeded the Jukebox 6000, the main difference between the two models being the larger hard drive sizes offered. The Jukebox Studio was available as a 10 GB, 15 GB, or 20 GB model. (The 15 GB version was shortlived.)
The Jukebox Studio was released Thursday, October 4, 2001 and discontinued in 2003. It weighs 350 g.
eth0: I guess Apple users are just as susceptible to psychological reactance as the rest of humanity.
What a surprise…
cvprosperoust: well if they gave the ipod that much crap, look how much theyre hating on the microsoft surface…
thatll be a goldmine now.
Jareth86: …And six years later, “i” is added as a prefix to almost anything digital. XD
ECas123: Anyone else wonder how many of the people that posted those comments have an iPod now?
traderhen: “No matter what Apple does there are always people who are NEVER happy. Give it a rest. It’s a great idea and the first of many. Why don’t you give it a chance. It’s price point isn’t half bad either. At $399 I would much rather have an ipod than say, an xbox. (no, I am not comparing the two, just the $399 discretionary spending price point).”
At least somebody thought the ipod had a chance.
clickmyface: I think it made sense to a lot of those people once they took an iPod in their hands.
That being siad, the biggest Apple folk in my group of friends still don’t jump on iPod as much as the windows+ipod generation. At that keynote we were looking for something to save Apple and few of use realized it would be iPod. Nobody thought it would really. When I invested in Apple in 2001 it wasnt because I thought iPod would save them, I thought Steve would. I couldnt imagine the guy who pushed the PC out the door would screw up his second time around. Nope, he didnt.
jbelkin: While the first ipod was not “wildly” successful, it became the best selling mp3 player very quickly – it, of course, further cemented that market share by adding the PC feature.
There were two problems with the mp3 DAP market.
The solutions out there were of limited appeal and too much work required of the average user.
It didn’t burst out of the gate because people were leery – having been over-promised the moon and yea, who was Apple again? … but once everyone realized you could get music on your player in MINUTES, the rest is history.
With the iphone, clearly Apple no longer has to answer the who is Apple portion but like the mp3 DAp market 6 years ago, the cell phone market is ripe for the plucking as Monty Burns might say.
They’ve been at it for 15 years (the cell guys), how many great hardwae-software phones have they produced?
We’ll know in about 20 days if the basic underlying foundation history repeats itself again … mainly that a bunch of competitors were busy engineering things for themselves and their profit margins but forgetting real users …
More reading …
http://2aday.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/the-calm-before-the-iphone-arrival-storm-the-last-days-of-the-cell-phone-industry-cabal/
