07 Oct 11
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Originally posted by PsychoPawniTunes, and the ability to sync that content across devices is what made the pod/phone/pad (sounds like ingredients to a Chinese take away meal) such an enduring success. You didn't have to put up with all the DRM windows media player crap or Sony's insanity, when you embraced Itunes.
That's not true. Apple didn't invent the mp3 player. They just created a very popular one.
They used to say, the biggest name in the music biz was Jobs.
Apple was never one thing. And they were more often than not, not the first on the block with anything. But it is the way everything is integrated together into a total user experience, that even as a non mac user, I have to take my hat off to and praise the Jobs!
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by kmax87I'm not denying any of that.
iTunes, and the ability to sync that content across devices is what made the pod/phone/pad (sounds like ingredients to a Chinese take away meal) such an enduring success. You didn't have to put up with all the DRM windows media player crap or Sony's insanity, when you embraced Itunes.
They used to say, the biggest name in the music biz was Jobs.
Apple ...[text shortened]... ser experience, that even as a non mac user, I have to take my hat off to and praise the Jobs!
Mp3 players and other media players were increasing in popularity and variety when the ipod came out and even if apple disappeared they still would have.
Apple did a great job of developing a great user experience that helped them produce the most popular mp3 player line. However, they did not create the market for mp3 players nor did they invent the idea of them.
There's no way of knowing what the downloadable music industry would be like without Apple, but it would exist in one form or another. That doesn't mean that Apple and Jobs weren't innovators in that arena, they just didn't build the arena or create the sport that they played.
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by PsychoPawnTrue. They did not create the arena or the sport, but they became so successfull at it that they spawned a cult of emulation and basically redisigned the arena's playing field in the process. My HTC Android would not be the product it is without Apple's success in the arena. Would it ever have been this good without them? I very much doubt it. But one thing is for sure, the pace and direction at which innovation has come to the personal IT space will forever be Apple's enduring legacy.
I'm not denying any of that.
Mp3 players and other media players were increasing in popularity and variety when the ipod came out and even if apple disappeared they still would have.
Apple did a great job of developing a great user experience that helped them produce the most popular mp3 player line. However, they did not create the market for mp3 ...[text shortened]... ators in that arena, they just didn't build the arena or create the sport that they played.
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by sh76Bless him in death but I can't help but thinking that the world would have been better off if he had never been born.
A true American hero.
A sad, sad day.
:'(
Rest in peace.
Many of his innovations have isolated ourselves and made us smaller.
He just should have found a way to make a better vaccuum instead of innovations that dumb us down.
07 Oct 11
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Originally posted by badmoonYea, sonny.
Bless him in death but I can't help but thinking that the world would have been better off if he had never been born.
Many of his innovations have isolated ourselves and made us smaller.
He just should have found a way to make a better vaccuum instead of innovations that dumb us down.
When I was a wee ladd, we didn't have them newfangled I-thigums. We walked 20 miles to school each way, in the snow, even in July. It built character.
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by badmoon-said the man sitting alone behind his computer in his mom's basement.
Bless him in death but I can't help but thinking that the world would have been better off if he had never been born.
Many of his innovations have isolated ourselves and made us smaller.
He just should have found a way to make a better vaccuum instead of innovations that dumb us down.
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by badmoonAnd exploited his workers. Don't forget the fact he was the 110th richest man in the world!! ðŸ˜
Bless him in death but I can't help but thinking that the world would have been better off if he had never been born.
Many of his innovations have isolated ourselves and made us smaller.
He just should have found a way to make a better vaccuum instead of innovations that dumb us down.
When will President Obama come out and demand that the state take a large portion of his estate?
07 Oct 11
Originally posted by kmax87iTunes is horrible and no Apple product offers anything that you can't get for a much lower price and the same or better quality.
iTunes, and the ability to sync that content across devices is what made the pod/phone/pad (sounds like ingredients to a Chinese take away meal) such an enduring success. You didn't have to put up with all the DRM windows media player crap or Sony's insanity, when you embraced Itunes.
They used to say, the biggest name in the music biz was Jobs.
Apple ...[text shortened]... ser experience, that even as a non mac user, I have to take my hat off to and praise the Jobs!
