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5:45 This is literally the equivalent of refreshing a webpage, and right as soon as you press it, the page loads, but you can't stop your finger in time
@@sgal5845 Exactly. There's etiquette we follow on this bloody website. You tell someone what a link goes to, "unless it's a Rick Roll". By doing that we keep a level of controlled chaos on this site.
Eh, if HP ever made an iPod clone, it would just be an iPod in a cardigan, that was worse. It would've never gone anywhere and nobody would remember it, and they're probably better off just having passive-aggressively slapped their stupid logo on everything iPod for a while. I know it seems like they were held hostage, but really it's for their own good. Go back to your printer market, HP. And test equipment.
I just wanna say, next week my classes are starting for my first year at college getting a degree in electronics, and a big reason why I’m going into that field is because I got so into iPods and old handheld devices thanks to this channel. So thanks for all that you do!
When you sell or dispose of an iPod or any mp3 player nugget, leave Scarlet Fire on it. Just so maybe, someday, DankPods finds a nugget with Scarlet Fire already on it.
Get an MP3 Player that's an iPod Ripoff and put Scarlet Fire on it as well as a cheap dirtbuds and put it all together inside a box and wrap it with Christmas Wrap. Then fly to Australia and go to Adelaide and go to his house and throw the box there.
I used to work tech support for iPods from '08-'11 ("Applecare Tier 1,") and these HP iPods were awful on our end. We were expressly told not to support them, it was apparently part of their contract that HP was supposed to do it, and people would get so mad when their Apple product wouldn't be supported by Apple.
There's a really good chance this came from a salvage store. In parts of the US we have a salvage chain called Hudson's Treasure Hunt/Dirt Cheap and this looks RIGHT off their shelf. They take in returned or damaged items to sell at discounted prices. They even use those big ugly barcode stickers on the side with a 6-digit code that corresponds to what percent off the item is. They go ham on the tape to either prevent theft or because the box is usually torn in half.
The HP packaging is so HP. That is truly their branding. Apple on the other hand really had it with those colored cutouts. It was a good design that was energetic and screamed fun and enterteinmant.
In theory, nothing about the subject matter is even remotely interesting to me, but the ENERGY, the ENTHUSIASM, the VERVE that you bring in every single video is SO GOOD that you could literally be reviewing rocks and I'd be enthralled
dude, at this point, i could listen to you talk about anything forever. you are incredible at making anything interesting or entertaining, and if anyones channel deserved to get big, it was def dank pods. you still rock, man^^
4:18 I had a Hewlett-Packard computer in that HP tower design back in 2003 (2.8 ghz Celeron & Windows XP). That silver mini makes me miss my gold Mini that I got for Christmas, 2004.
@@KillerCaitie That was an actual line of his in one of his early videos where he talks about the HP iPod. I can't remember which video though. Edit: Found it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J55DzrKxf_0.htmlm15s
Altec Lansing has nice speakers when they actually try. I have a couple of speakers that are water/shock proof and I can mount them to my kayaks to listen to them (they pair together so my buddy and I can have our own speaker to listen to)
yeah I have a speaker from them that was 10 bucks and for being that cheap the thing sounds great, is sufficiently loud, is built well, is small, and even has rgb leds lmao
Yeah I got a waterproof one for $20 (returned in a damaged box at Walmart so discounted) and the sounds fine enough for a portable Bluetooth speaker. I don’t trust my phone to be waterproof but I’ll trust the speaker - when I shower in my college dorm, I can leave my phone in my room and away from all the moisture. Good use of $20
Ive got an old Altec Lansing im7 ipod Dock. That thing is a beast. Takes 8 D-Cell batteries to operate, but man, it did make some noise. Dankpods would love that thing...
It took till I was like 14 to figure out that HP stood for hewlett-packard and i spent so many years as a kid trying to come up with what H and P could mean in the context of computers. Best I came up with was something like Hardware People or something dumb like that when I was 10 or something
When I was a kid and just getting into PCs, I was so confused that there was Hewlett-Packard, and Packard Bell. I thought somebody was double-dipping, because how many Packards do you know?
I imagine a lot of these HP iPods sold due to them being available in stores were the regular iPod wasn’t available and people bought them without realizing the co-marketing agreement between HP and Apple.
My first iPod Shuffle (the white USB thumb drive type) was an iPod+hp model. Funny thing was when I went to trade it in at the Apple Store the employee initially thought I couldn't get any trade-in credit because it was the HP model. Turns out that wasn't the case, but it definitely shows how weird these were - even Apple Store employees were confused! The trade-in was for the 2nd-gen Nano in black (the 8GB model). Absolutely the best iPod ever in my opinion. :)
My first iPod was an Oracle IPod. It was similar to an HP iPod. My dad would only want to buy HP computer because if that. One Oracle iPod I’ve seen had Oracle, HP and Apple logo all on the back.
7:23 Last Year I bought an iPod Mini and I looked on it and it was a Dentist’s Hard drive. It was full to the brim of teeth photos, Family Photos & surgery photos. Strange.
It was an okay direct I thought. I'm happy about more stuff coming to Smash and Animal Crossing. Kirby looks great. Metroid Dread is looking like an easy game of the year for me. Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis for Switch online were surprising too. Though I'd have given up both of those to get Gameboy Advance games instead... Oh and that's another thing! The Gameboy Advance Castlevania collection! Gonna be cool to have both that and Advance Wars Reboot soon! What did you think of the direct?
@@giygas_9577 you can emulate almost every single N64 and genesis game for free on weak hardware such as your phone. paying extra on an already shit online service for games you can get free with 0 effort is a joke. literally the only thing worth from the direct was Bayo 3 and thats a multi platform game
@@sparksk8er Believe me, I'm not interested in paying more for their service. For what they're offering, they should have just added those N64 and Genesis games onto the current plan. The only three N64 games I even care about have better versions on 3DS. The only reason I even have Switch online is for cloud saves. I disagree about Bayonetta being the only good thing in the direct though. Kirby and Splatoon 3 both look good to me. Plus there were the other announcements relating to Smash and Animal Crossing, both of which I'm looking forward to. And I'm sure Monster Hunter fans were happy about the new expansion for Rise. So I don't think Bayonetta 3 was the only good thing in there. There have been much worse directs.
I have a gripe with Altec too, they sell “waterproof” speakers yet if you leave it water on it for more than like 10 minutes the damn thing rusts like your grandads old tricycle.
Old bikes and metal tables rust really badly, I can't believe the steel used in Altec speakers are that low quality, rusts faster than old bikes and tables. Also happened to my WFC core class Optimus Prime (his metal hinge rusted in a few months, I put him in the bathroom bucket and the swimming pool a few times, and I always play in the swimming pool for more than 30 minutes, that hinge held up pretty well) but that thing's a toy, faint rusting like that doesn't matter. The Altec thing is a goddamn speaker advertised to be waterproof. Usually these "stainless" steel stuff only rust if you keep them in a very humid fridge for around a week. Rusting in 11 minutes is a horrendous crime for any kind of steel. Especially when the water is just on the speaker's surface instead of when the whole speaker is in the water.
Hey Dank Pods, I used to work for a company and we scanned for digital archiving all sorts of cool stuff. This one project we had was for Apple and we scanned and documented all kinds of cool apple stuff in pristine condition. Manuals, paper work, fan mail, Apple Summer Camp stuff, prototype stuff, and oddities like this HP and Apple collaboration and other old apple products.
This really shows how much packaging and promotions make or break a product. If HP were the ones selling ipods, in HP packaging with HP promotional material, the ipod probably wouldnt have stuck around too long. Doesnt matter how good the product is, it wouldnt have sold looking like that. Whereas apple can sell absolute shit for hundreds of $'s because they have pretty much mastered marketing and company branding.
YOU are your playlist. The marketing gimmick of the 2000s was basically someone noticed that the word "You" was really effective in getting a potential customer's attention, so it became an arms race between companies to see who could write the word "YOU" bigger and and bolder in advertising and packaging.
Okay, so I gotta ask. It says "For Windows PCs" on the box, and I've seen bits like that elsewhere on your iPod videos. ...Did they seriously make seperate iPod models for Windows and Mac? Because that seems like a completely insane thing to do.
Initially, iPods used Firewire, which I don't think was a common standard on Windows PCs in the first place, along with the fact that iTunes didn't exist for Windows. I think the whole deal with HP was to show that iPods could then be used with Windows PCs? Because Apple made iTunes available on Windows, so marketing "For Windows" was to let people know when they saw ads or product boxes or anything that they weren't Mac exclusive anymore.
Firewire existed on PCs too. It just wasn't as common as USB, and at the time USB 1.1 was still common in the wild, which means 12Mbps, or 1.5MB/sec, or about 3 seconds per song transfer time. The "for Windows" or "for Mac" thing was related to how the disk on the iPod was formatted. Windows wouldn't read HFS format, and older versions of Mac OS made you go through some hoops to read FAT-formatted disks. There wasn't really a cross-platform file system that "just worked" yet, though Mac OS X improved this significantly, and would've been common by then. IIRC, you could reformat the iPod's disk to either Mac or Windows format. And a few generations in, you could expect to have USB 2.0 on a PC, so it wasn't that important anymore - I don't think you were forced to stick with the platform you bought into. But, by the time I got my first iPod (iPod Video), those days of platform distinction were coming to an end.
For an hour after I watched this video I was walking around doing life stuff, giggling and muttering to myself, "I'm a doctor now. Clear." lol I don't know why that was so funny to me but I had to come back and tell you.
I'm glad for the video, but I am SURE you have covered this already. Maybe not as in depth, but I've seen you talking about these before. Thanks for the video
