Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)

Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by huxley on Monday October 24, 2016 @10:25PM (#12784782)

The Nomad was pretty much just a rebranded Samsung Yepp YP-D40.

It had 64MB of flash storage and a parallel port connector compared to the 5GB and Firewire 400 that the iPod had, the Nomad/Yepp YP-D40 was fairly decent compared to a lot of the crap that was out there, but it didn't deserve a premium price.

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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by sesqu on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:39AM (#12786241)

Perhaps you should compare the iPod to the Nomad Jukebox line from around the iPod's release, instead of the Nomad 1 from the 90's.

Jukebox 1 had 6GB storage, USB 1.1, and came out nearly a year before iPod 1. Jukebox 2 came out the following year, had 30GB storage, and used USB 2.0.

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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by huxley on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:25AM (#12795301)

The Nomad 1 came out in 1999 so it wasn't so very long before the iPod's 2001 release.

But you're right, I did forget about the Jukebox and it was much more competitive.

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