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"That said, it had a significantly better user experience than contemporary competitors, but that's mostly because MP3 players back in 2001 were universally horrible."

I love how people forget devices like Creative NOMAD, Archos Jukebox, etc. when recalling the past of Apple changing everything in personal media players. It is the same with ignoring the LG Prada when talking about the iPhone. Just stop it.

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As a Mac user since 2001, what originally sold me on the 1st/2nd gen iPod was it had the capacity of the larger players without being the size of a game gear.

They definitely weren't the first and they really didn't catch on until they marketed the crap out of it and introduced the 3rd gen with USB connectors. The firewire 1st/2nd gen wouldn't even work on a lot of windows machines because they usually had 4 pin firewire or didn't supply enough power.

Funny thing is, the 1st/2nd gen had the best syncing experience by far! iTunes would sync as fast as that little 1.8" hard drive could handle, and there was a storage mode. -shrug-

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