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streaming killed the MP3 player, actually
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Dec 20, 2015 00:51
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The Management posted:imagine working on a product that everyone has heard of, millions of people buy, and utterly destroyed every competitor in its segment. must be terrible then, further imagine being pulled from the iphone team to work on the iwatch, which was doomed from its inception
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Dec 20, 2015 01:04
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it was a fad in the sense that almost no one actually needs 30-60-90 gb of music. the hdd-based player came and went so fast it made heads spin it's almost like access to the Internet everywhere and all the music that the Internet contains being available all the time had some effect on it, nah must have just been a fad
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Dec 20, 2015 01:17
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As a Millennial I posted:streaming killed the MP3 player, actually MP3 players, even the iPod, were on the decline years before music streaming services were anywhere close to mainstream.
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Dec 20, 2015 01:17
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:it's almost like access to the Internet everywhere and all the music that the Internet contains being available all the time had some effect on it, nah must have just been a fad i'm the unlimited data plan that works everywhree
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Dec 20, 2015 01:29
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and i dont mean 'in the woods' i mean 'in a building'
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Dec 20, 2015 01:31
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flakeloaf posted:and i dont mean 'in the woods' i mean 'in a building' i'm the person who is in a building and doesn't have wifi
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Dec 20, 2015 01:43
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Doc Block posted:Imagine going to work at Apple, only for your boss to wind up being the guy who wrote a whole blog post titled, "Go gently caress Yourselves, Apple" when he worked at Adobe. imagine being someone who worked at adobe
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Dec 20, 2015 01:43
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seems to be pretty exciting since they still need to get the next version onto 16/14nm while improving its performance imagine if the s2 is as powerful as the a9 while using less power than the s1 or if they have a chip good enough to hold its own lte/wifi connection while having double the batterylife as the current s1
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Dec 20, 2015 02:20
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also do you call your macbook air a mac air? or ipod touch as itouch or something?
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Dec 20, 2015 02:23
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it was a fad in the sense that almost no one actually needs 30-60-90 gb of music. the hdd-based player came and went so fast it made heads spin almost like apple owned the market with the epic ipod then iterated that into the ultimate ownage device the iphone turning them into an unstoppable juggernaut. thanks timb echinopsis posted:so not relatable to working on the failed iwatch then all were devices that came into a market and pwned everyone else into the Stone Age with better hardware and sick software. another Apple win
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Dec 20, 2015 04:16
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Stux posted:almost like apple owned the market with the epic ipod then iterated that into the ultimate ownage device the iphone turning them into an unstoppable juggernaut. thanks timb the ipod came and went the iphone actually is an all-conquering juggernaut. there is no comparison. all bow before lord timbcooka, may a thousand flowers bless his path.
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Dec 20, 2015 04:19
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Stymie posted:then, further imagine being pulled from the iphone team to work on the iwatch, which was doomed from its inception Apple Watch instantly dominated the market and is pulling in Big Bucks. seems like an unqualified win again for apple
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Dec 20, 2015 04:20
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the ipod came and went the ipod was the necessary first step towards the iphone, it's historic contribution will go down in history
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Dec 20, 2015 04:21
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Stux posted:Apple Watch instantly dominated the market and is pulling in Big Bucks. seems like an unqualified win again for apple the iwatch dominates the market of dumb gadgets for sweaty nerds, it's true
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Dec 20, 2015 04:28
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the iwatch is failing so badly that apple, a company utterly unafraid about boasting about its various sales, install bases and activations, won't release its sales figures
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Dec 20, 2015 04:46
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Stux posted:the ipod was the necessary first step towards the iphone, it's historic contribution will go down in history the ipod would still exist if for some reason an iphone couldn't play music. idg why people call it a "fad" any more than a discman or a walkman or a transistor radio were "fads". they were just the best way of listening to music at the time. now it's an iphone.
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Dec 20, 2015 04:52
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you guys don't know poo poo. it's unlikely anyone was pulled off of the iPhone division to work for the Watch, unless they requested it; for secrecy they simply transferred the iPod team over to work on the thing, that's how they maintained internal secrecy
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Dec 20, 2015 04:55
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flakeloaf posted:i'm the unlimited data plan that works everywhree spotify, the only good streaming service, lets you keep songs/playlists available offline for that situation
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Dec 20, 2015 06:05
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how would this compare to working on Apple Maps, because there's a goon that specifically got a job trying to make that good.
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Dec 20, 2015 06:48
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good directions are something that normal people actually need so
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Dec 20, 2015 07:13
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the original icon for the apple maps app instructed you to take a left turn directly through the wall of an overpass
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Dec 20, 2015 07:17
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Wulfolme posted:the original icon for the apple maps app instructed you to take a left turn directly through the wall of an overpass good
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Dec 20, 2015 14:12
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flakeloaf posted:i'm the unlimited data plan that works everywhree Hello, tmobile.
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Dec 20, 2015 14:47
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what killed the ipod was not that there was music streaming or whtevet, it was that smart phones and just phones that could do poo poo other than call and text came out and all of a sudden people didnt need a music player with them in order to drown out the putside world. they could find ways to avoid interaction and pass time that didnt require earbuds and a ipod listening to the same 250 tracks over and over. people always wanted this ability, they just didnt have the means. then smartphones allowed me to play 2048 or text or read news and all of a sudden i dont nwed music to tune out the hobos on the metro
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Dec 20, 2015 16:11
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remember when people used to literally get murdered for their iPods?
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Dec 20, 2015 17:16
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Doc Block posted:remember when people used to literally get murdered for their iPods? nope
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Dec 20, 2015 17:17
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when iPods were new and cost $400, a few people were killed for them. people even stopped wearing the white earbuds for a while because apple was the only one shipping earbuds in that color, so criminals would see the white cord, assume it was connected to an iPod, and then try to steal it. imagine dying over an iPod.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:30
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400 million iPods sold in a decade. more than twice the number of Walkmans, previously the most successful consumer electronics product of all time, sold in 30 years. but definitely a fad, not the right technology at the right time.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:43
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Doc Block posted:when iPods were new and cost $400, a few people were killed for them. people here did the opposite, get white buds so people would think they owned and iPod Wen the reality was they couldn't afford iPod wasn't a fad, it just might seem like it but technology moves very fast.. fads imply they died off coz people moved on from them but they were superseded rather than people grew tired of them now the iwatch.... THAT is a fad
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Dec 20, 2015 18:36
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The Management posted:400 million iPods sold in a decade. more than twice the number of Walkmans, previously the most successful consumer electronics product of all time, sold in 30 years. but definitely a fad, not the right technology at the right time. wow i had no idea. is that true? that's pretty incredible given how cheap walkmans are. although i guess maybe a walkman used to be as expensive as an ipod?? i dont know
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Dec 20, 2015 18:47
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:wow i had no idea. is that true?
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Dec 20, 2015 19:11
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i'm sure that in the many years of the sony walkman, there have been untold derivatives released by sony, which you would not include in that statistic according to the same dictates of whatever weird ipod canon exists in your head.
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Dec 20, 2015 19:34
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