I had one of these back then and I just found it in a drawer I havent touched in years. I looked it up to see what year it was from and its so old Steve Jobs was doing presentations on it! Great piece of tech for its time!
8:40. Woah. Jesus Christ. In that moment, he effectively KILLED the competition. MORE storage. BETTER interface? LOWER cost!? Honestly it would have gotten a cheer from me just being the SAME price for more features, but to go and price them BELOW the competition? Incredible.
Every SJ presentation is a masterclass. It's part business lesson, part marketing presentation, 100% sales. Makes me want to go out and buy one 17 years later.
240 songs isn't a lot in 2022, but you know what, for a camping trip or even a ski trip, these things are perfect. I think I have mine laying around somewhere, and it still works.
I have one of these with all preloaded late 90s and early 2000s songs. How do I check the song library? I remember I used to use itunes like 15 years ago to load stuff onto here, but I havent since. I switched to Samsung phones a while back and dont know how the whole itunes to apple music thing works. PC owner here btw. Thank you. Loved this device, time to bust it out again. Brings back memories of my parents, who added all the music for me at the time.
Not sure if iTunes is still an app you can get for PCs, but you might find a copy of the software that still works with Windows 10/11. Apple Music is just the replacement for iTunes, at least on Macs. The streaming service is just added to the side of the ability to purchase and own your music.
I wonder what the other manufacturers were thinking when they saw these presentations, Steve Jobs practically making fun of them and then offering a better device (double capacity) at a lower cost (which is weird for apple standards). Like 99$ for 512mb while the others were 149$ for 256mb.
Megahertz don’t matter. It’s the motion of the ocean. But for real it’s just architectural differences that caused powerpc processors at the time to outperform chips with higher clock speeds.
I think the point was something like... Why have a display at all if it's so small and practically useless. So they didn't put a display and made the "shuffle" the main feature so you wouldn't miss the display too much.
