Re:Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes
by dmitriid on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:30PM
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> A lucky set of circumstances led to the iPod dominating the digital audio player market: bold marketing, a smaller HDD form factor, high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs... Apple bundled MusicMatch Jukebox at first, but then made iTunes available on Windows
That's a heck of a lot of "lucky circumstances" to call it "lucky circumstances" ;)
I'd say it was a lot of hard work delivering on a (rather novel at the time) idea that may or may not have worked. All that effort paid off in the end. Same goes for iPhone.
That's a heck of a lot of "lucky circumstances" to call it "lucky circumstances" ;)
I'd say it was a lot of hard work delivering on a (rather novel at the time) idea that may or may not have worked. All that effort paid off in the end. Same goes for iPhone.