A thread on macrumors.com when the first iPod was released in 2001.

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

from your.. iphone?

Nexus 4

 

[brickfare]

those wolfson dacs



i need to get my fifth gen video ipod repaired, smartphone sound quality really pales in comparison

 

[smoove157]

You're an idiot.... what brought apple back to relevance was quality. Those old iphones came with a

USB/WiFi cable with dock
2 Headphones
Wall charger

I was an early adopter and swore by their quality but I had also bought and returned a bunch of other mp3 players trying to find the best one and kept coming back to apple because the sound quality was unmatched. It wasn't marketing or fanboy shyt, I did research. They also had/have a great warranty for products.

Fast forward to now and I haven't fukked with and iPhone since 3g. They are good phones but unlike with the iPod situation they are not the best and the truth is there are tons of viable options. The phone market is wide open.

you gotta put me on to this

 

[stealthbomber]

Sounds very revolutionary to me.

hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up?

or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?

can't wait to up all these xbox 1 threads in 6 years from now

 

[stealthbomber]

Dragging and dropping sucks for MP3s


Itunes >*

I listen to music all day and Itunes is what will keep me with Team Jobs for life.

expandable and transferrable memory>>>>>

when i get a new phone that seamless transition is

 

[muzikfrk75]

same exact thing happened when the original iphone rumors started...I remember people constantly saying a touchscreen phone would NEVER work.

Guilty as charged

Still miss my Blackberry sometimes.....but now it's Droid Gang

 

[muzikfrk75]

http://www.macrumors.com/2001/10/23/apples-new-thing-ipod/

155 months ago
We live in the YEAR 2001... not 6000 years from now when ridiculously awsome technology will exist. No other mp3 player has a harddrive like this... 5gigs... fukk yeah. A rio of the same size offers 64megs. Jesum Crow, get over your moping.. .this is revolutionary.... plus it's just the beggining. This device litterally bests anything on the market by about 100x

Dude knew what was up

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Dragging and dropping sucks for MP3s
Lmao google music is way better... Real time updating on my phone without having to connect to a computer. I can and do download albums and play them right away... Something so simple but hard for istans lol.

Having access to all my music from anywhere I can go online without needing a mp3 device.
.

you gotta put me on to this

my bad
Should say firewire

 

[Kilgore Trout]

expandable and transferrable memory>>>>>

when i get a new phone that seamless transition is

sometimes I wish I could use my phone as a USB drive but it doesn't bother me that much. I hated the idea of using Itunes at first but now I cant live without it. Its by far the best way to organize your music if you're an audiophile. Most android users dont care about music that much (I rarely see them with headphones on) . If music wasnt important to me I would definitely use an android.

 

[stealthbomber]

sometimes I wish I could use my phone as a USB drive but it doesn't bother me that much. I hated the idea of using Itunes at first but now I cant live without it. Its by far the best way to organize your music if you're an audiophile. Most android users dont care about music that much (I rarely see them with headphones on) . If music wasnt important to me I would definitely use an android.

iphone=audiophile? a lot of the tracks on my sd card are mp4's. and the music player on the iphone is the same as on any andriod except we can get more types of audio files i do like the auto sync to itunes though

 

[Kilgore Trout]

iphone=audiophile? a lot of the tracks on my sd card are mp4's. and the music player on the iphone is the same as on any andriod except we can get more types of audio files i do like the auto sync to itunes though

Audiophiles do use iphones and itunes as opposed to random android devices and whatever software it uses, im guessing win amp.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

sometimes I wish I could use my phone as a USB drive but it doesn't bother me that much. I hated the idea of using Itunes at first but now I cant live without it. Its by far the best way to organize your music if you're an audiophile. Most android users dont care about music that much (I rarely see them with headphones on) . If music wasnt important to me I would definitely use an android.

Absolutely not true my music is organized and available in the clouds and I can edit info and album art from any computer browser not my personal iTunes only. Stream my music on any Android device by login into the music app And download and add/listen to albums without having to go to iTunes on a computer first. There is no comparison. This whole experience as a music fan is amazing and way beyond iTunes capabilities.

 

[Brofato]

sometimes I wish I could use my phone as a USB drive but it doesn't bother me that much. I hated the idea of using Itunes at first but now I cant live without it. Its by far the best way to organize your music if you're an audiophile. Most android users dont care about music that much (I rarely see them with headphones on) . If music wasnt important to me I would definitely use an android.

I require more control over my music and tags than iTunes affords. I'm damn near compulsive about it, that's why it's never worked for me. I Really only installed it time and time again cause I liked Cover Flow or wanted to update an old ipod or something someone would bring me.

The bolded did make me laugh though. Dapped for that

 

[Fury616]

Guilty as charged

Still miss my Blackberry sometimes.....but now it's Droid Gang

You weren't alone though...it was a pretty radical idea. I remember when the pics started floating around the internet I thought they were fake.
Like "this supposed to be a phone? where the buttons at?" I thought Apple was trollin' everybody.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

i have a gs3, and a ipod classic 160gb(bout to upgrade to 240gigs), and i love itunes