There may never be a better example of "what's compelling to techies isn't necessarily what's compelling to the general public" than that one.
(Also always lost in the mythologizing of this quote is that the first version of the iPod was not good. Mechanical click wheel, mac only, it took them a revision to disprove my statement!)
Since I have your attention, thanks for all the good years of Slashdot! Hope you're doing well.