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- badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -4/+83He said "when" not "where". You are cut from the team.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Why lost? I've seen it couple of times...
Anyway it's funny how that first iPod looks like a brick if you compare it with the current iPods. - umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44...and I still have my G1. When can I sell it for a ton of money?
- tripm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35how was this "lost" ?
- lowbot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Steven Jobs and the Macintosh company?
Hehe. Its Steve jobs. "Steven Jobs and the Macintosh company" sounds like a folk 70s band. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+39No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
- knuckles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25@ badler...
That was one of Steve's TEST runs. It wasn't the actual event, this is a recording of an INTERNAL presentation that Steve is renound for, he practices practices and practices his speaches weeks in advance. They are recorded so he can review them and the audience's reaction. - NobleArc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28At 3:29 in the video, you can see a Beatles CD in the lower left corner, in the pile of CDs. :D
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Today's rant was brought to you by Immaturity, the new fragrance from KidsOnKeyboards. Immaturity, the only fragrance that makes the happy people look at you and say "What's the *#&# is his problem?...."
- lpmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Dude, what the heck kind of geek are you? If it plugs in, it's cool. Having a favorite company - or a hated one - is about as lame as Ford vs Chevy, Sega vs Nintendo, etc.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Many Digg users weren't old enough to read when the iPod was introduced.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
- umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It does still work and the battery lasts a couple of hours at most. Only problem I really had with it was sometimes in my pocket the wheel would spin itself and the volume would make me deaf. ....then I found the hold button....
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Skip protection. There's long lost phrase
- splatnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Cool video but defenitely not lost. I saw it for the first time on digg a couple of months ago. I guess you should expect rapid reposting in a short attention span society. I think it's funny that I don't even read full engadget posts anymore let alone full articles or books. I'm pretty sure I'm getting stupider for it too...
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18How ironic...
- JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The Internet archive's got the original iPod product page, it's pretty cool: http://web.archive.org/web/20011024015856/http://www.apple.com/ipod/
- badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Oh, how I miss FireWire.
- shank2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This comment on that slashdot thread is just too funny:
"Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
~LoudMusic"
And this, "LoudMusic" is why Steve Jobs is a multimillionaire, and you still live at home with your Mom! ;P - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14kidcodea -
The answer to your question is in the question itself.
You asked why there are no "asus users or dfi users or gygabyte users or tyan users or intel users or alienware users or dell users" waxing poetic about their products?
Because their products don't inspire people the way Apple's do.
Ever heard someone enthuse about their Porsche, or their jewelry from Tiffanys, or their Tag Heurer watch? Yup. You probably have. There's a reason people like to talk about some products more than others. - turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12back then, 96 was the norm. I remember i got a nomad right before the ipod came out, buyers remorse.
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Anyone digging this down probably wasn't on the scene when the iPod launched. This was the mantra of the "iPod will kill Apple" crowd.
Essentialy, it's funny. - NonPC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"when he said it was an "i" pod I wonder if any of them could have predicted an i before everything for the next 4 years"
Uhm, yeah since the iPod came well after the iMac and iMovie and iTunes. - steveoa3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Best part of that annoucement was the posts shortly after in a Apple Forum where all the posters where PISSED about the iPod and said stuff like it would be the death of Apple ! A few users thought it was cool but 9 out of 10 posts thought the iPod was a doomed product.
If anything I would say the iPod has saved Apple, the sales and profits have been huge and in turn has sparked interest in Apple Computers.
Good stuff..... - ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12CharlesDarwin has been marked as lame.
- snubber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9and the aspect ratio is wrong.... blah.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Last time I checked my iPod had 40+ GB out of mp3s, none of them DRM'ed.
- ohgoodness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8most, if not all, apple stories are posted to the apple section. you can turn off the apple section so you don't have to see these stories anymore. it probably takes less time and effort than it took you to write out that comment.
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Am I the only one that noticed the ipod looked almost square?
Can't other people tell when something is out of proportion? Or do they see it, but not care?
I hate when people strecth 4:3 content across at 16:9 display. But, I seem to be the only person in the world that so much as notices!
Worse is this video: 4:3 content, squished into 16:9, and then displayed on a 4:3 display with black bars. It doesn't get any more backwards than that, folks. - JohnFrisco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Oh my God. It's a Zune!
- zenmouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10pfft.. I don't see what's so great about it. It prob won't sell too well.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82001.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Anyone noticed the sound not matching up with the video on youtube videos lately? seems like it happened alot since their little update
- floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This is lame, I was hoping for a touch screen and widescreen announcement...
/:read sarcasm: - xixor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@kidcodea:
"suddenly , digg transforms itself in a shrine of mac pr. anything mac. doesnt really"
What does the iPod have to do with Macs? Looking around my office, I see 6 people with iPods, no macs in sight, and they all own PCs at home. I have an iPod, I have never owned a Mac, and I couldn't use MacOS/OSX to save my life. I'll save making fun of your spelling/grammar and maturity level for other diggers... - corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I can't count how many times this has been on here.
- staan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You are not the only one. Everyone I know with widescreen televisions has it set to stretch 4:3 content. It drives me insane.
It's pan & scan all over again, except worse. - matthiasgoodman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You have a 2 terabyte iPod. Wow!!!
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5USB 2.0 is supposed to be as fast as Firewire, but it just ain't so. My 3rd gen iPod syncs about 40-50% faster than my nano or my 5th gen.
I wish Apple would introduce a premium-level iPod for those of us willing to pay extra. I'd gladly pony up an extra hundred bucks or so to have a better battery, Firewire, and some of the other features they've skipped to keep the standard iPod price down. - Shatneresque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That looks like "Town Hall", the small auditorium on the Apple campus, also used to the HiFi intro earlier this year (as idesign mentioned).
Even at that time Apple did pack very large halls for their intros. The '98 iMac intro was at the Flint center, for example. Don't know why he chose to do this one in Town Hall, but that's not uncommon, even today. Doesn't mean they couldn't have drawn a bigger crowd if they wanted to. Most of the people in attendance are press, and if they want a big crowd, they just invite more of them.
Also, that's not Comic Sans, it looks more like Chalkboard -- a font he still uses sometimes. - da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Wow apple sure has made a lot of ground in terms of presentations that was smaller then most classrooms at my college and now they use freaking IMAX theaters. I like how people laughed when he said it was an "i" pod I wonder if any of them could have predicted an i before everything for the next 4 years
- xixor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@xshaisu
heh. I remember reading that article when it was originally on slashdot, and I just re-read a lot of the comments predicting apples doom. Pretty funny reading now that the iPod product line has been a hands-down runaway success.
What has really impressed me about Apple and the iPod family is that they keep out-doing themselves. How many companies would have produced the iPod, sat back and watched the cash roll in, and when sales started to drop, fired the engineering/design staff to keep the account books look good for shareholders. Instead, Apple continues to improve and update their products. First it was new generation iPods, then it was minis. They released the nano at the end of last summer, and now, they are releasing another Nano. If I wasn't so happy with my nano, I would probably buy one of the new ones. - idesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This was a special event similar to the announcement of the Hi-fi and Mac Mini. I think maybe even in the same room on the Apple campus.
- _jens_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I still use the first iPod. I like the mechanic wheel and sharp edges. Straight out of the design team, before everybody started to bitch about it not being this and that.!
And it still holds 4+ hours of nonstop playing. - xyqxyq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That was a cool video. When it gets to the end it displays "The End." I thought it should have said "The Beginning."
- VolsFan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Because 128 kbps AAC files sound better than 160 kbps MP3 files. There's more to audio quality than just the bitrate.
- canyonblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"@ badler...
That was one of Steve's TEST runs. It wasn't the actual event, this is a recording of an INTERNAL presentation that Steve is renound for, he practices practices and practices his speaches weeks in advance. They are recorded so he can review them and the audience's reaction."
False. This was the real announcement and to media in the audience. They don't do all the announcements in a big auditorium and in fact that same small room was used for the spring announcements of the mac mini update and the ipod hi-fi. the reality is that the small room was used because not that many people cared about another mp3 gadget coming from a then weaker apple. they sure do care now... - mcottier, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8This video reminded me of my MP3 cd player. It was cool to have one in those days.
- DarkSideofMoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You can only sync the 5G iPod with USB. It can charge through FireWire, but it's impossible to sync with it.
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Do you actually own an iPod? Don't just make baseless comments. They do for a fact play any mp3 file.
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