Posted by RichardK on 06/14/06 08:41

NRen2k5 wrote:

>> But, you can do that in iTunes, without having to mess around, with
>> playlists, albums and indivudual songs, to load up 3rd party MP3
>> players, burn MP3 CDs, and load onto iPod.
>
>
> But you can do that without iTunes.

Not quite as easily.

> Only if you're some kind of idiot who doesn't have his music organized.

It's perfectly organised. Unless you think doing it manually is in some
way better than having an application do it for you at the time of
importing...

>> My first MP3 player was a Panasonic SV-SD75, in 2001, I forget. It
>> was... comical. It had an SD card of 64Mb capacity. Looked like a
>> watch. Cost loads (I was given it as a present, but it was £248/$349
>> in 2001, for an hour of playback). Had to use the AWFUL RealJukebox to
>> load files onto it. Protected EVERY file you put on it.
>
> And that was Panasonic. Jesus fuck, the non sequitur is like a crutch to
> this man.

Yes. That was Panasonic - a mass market company - making an MP3 player.
One of the first on the market, and one of the smallest, too. You don't
seem to get this 'context' thing.

>> The 1st Gen iPod came out in 2001, too. 5GB storage. MP3/AAC playback.
>> $399. iTunes (which was better and easier to use than Real Jukebox).
>
> Which is setting the bar very low.

True, but regardless, Apple's solution was better than any solution on
Windows. And their player offered almost 100x the capacity for $50 more.

>> Is it really that hard to grasp WHY Apple dominates this market? All
>> the industry analysis said "iPods are too expensive", but Apple knew
>> that music is important to people; make it easy and useful, and
>> they'll buy it, and people did.
>
> Apple knew that marketing and lock-ins work.

What lock-ins, you retard. This is 2001 I'm talking about. iTMS came out
WAY after the iPod was a success.

Richard

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