Friday, May 7, 2004 |
20:47 - TimePod
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&mode=thread&tid=107
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Look what Marcus found. It's the Slashdot article from October 23, 2001, when the iPod was announced.
Just look at those post titles:
• lame? • So now everyone that laughed at the iWalk... • whoopdeedoo • cool but much too expensive • oh no not again
That last one concludes, All I can say is, as an Apple "fan", I'm sad.
To read at least half the posts on there, the iPod was to be the harbinger of doom for Apple: yet another overpriced, underfeatured, boutique item that nobody would buy and that would become as much a respected piece of technology as the Newton.
And people also, predictably, warn of the dire consequences of the new player not supporting Ogg Vorbis.
History can be instructive.
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