Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Dr. What
From : Moondog
Date : Wed May 11 2022 22:03:00

  Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Dr. What to Ennev on Wed May 11 2022 08:48 am

 > -=> Ennev wrote to All <=-
 > 
 >  En> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/
 > 
 >  En> We will say what we want, but Apple would have been dead and gone
 >  En> without that product. The translucent iMac brought them back, but iPod
 >  En> ensured the cash flow that paved the way for iPhone.
 > 
 > Apple's had a long track record of "jumping ahead" then failing to innovate
 > while their competitors moved past them - in price, quality and features.
 > 
 > But Apple's attitude of "we control everything" always grated on me and I
 > always found better products for less, so I had no reason to submit to the L
 > Steve Jobs.
 > 
 >  En> I had an mp3 player before getting an iPod eventually and never looked
 >  En> back. They nailed the coffin on other players with the intuitive
 >  En> interface with the scroll wheel. Just sad that it was also a vanity
 >  En> product. You didn't have white earphones with the iconic white wires.
 >  En> What was wrong with you?
 > 
 > I've had many MP3 players.  The Archos devices beat Apple hands down.  I did
 > own 1 iPod that I got used somewhere.  It was worthless until I flashed it w
 > Rockbox.  Then it was actually pretty nice.
 > 
 > 
 > ... In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a pole.

I recall Archos.  They made a nice player.  I recall around 2001-2002 a
department admin was asking me if I had system admin rights to install
software (yes I did) and wanted whatever Archos software her player shipped
with installed on her work pc.  I told her I could if she follows through
with putting in a software request.  She said she did, and they denied it. 
she didn't state a reason.  This was not her personal listening device.  Her
manager approved the purchase order so she could have a digital recording
device for dictation and recording meetings.  When she was sitting at her
desk with headphones on, she was getting work done.

The last project I was on was at a hospital, and the Dragon Medical suite and
mics were deployed to every doctor.  The program  understood and would
translate slang so some terms they would use such as SOB for shortness of
breath would be transposed with something else.  I was so used to seeing the
infomercials for Dragon, and assumed it was some cheesy gimmick product.

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