People said it was just another uninteresting mp3 player. They were right, no?
Didn't the iPod rise to market leader have far more to do with marketing than any performance merit?
Didn't the iPod rise to market leader have far more to do with marketing than any performance merit?
The clickwheel and iTunes sofware were part of the equation, and the iTunes store was the other. If I had told you nine years ago that your nontechnical family members would soon be downloading music from the internet and playing it on their portable device, would you have believed it? Would any amount of marking have gotten them to use a Diamond Rio and MusicMatch?
I haven't owned an iPod, but I remember setting a couple up for my family on a PC. It was NOT some cakewalk. I hit problems and syncing later broke.
There was never anything notably usable about the ipod vs. competing models, especially those with the "drop the mp3 files on the usb drive" approach.