Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by jandrese on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:08PM
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The first couple of generations of the iPod kinda sucked too. It's really hard to get everything perfect in the first generation, probably impossible. Having the agility to iterate on the design quickly so you can capitalize on the initial hype is what Apple does so well.
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Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by brianwawok on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:37PM
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IPod came out before cheap flash storage. I am surprised it worked as well as it did for shoving a laptop hard drive in a music player.
Would a car be like that now? Batteries are close to too expensive, but 38k model 3 says we are close...
Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by rangoon626 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:55AM
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Did they?
Not that much about the iPod changed between 2001 and 2005. A simple to use interface, large storage made it great from the start, but windows support it what made it successful.
Re:Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ b...
by jandrese on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:58AM
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They physical wheel was fragile and the internal HDDs weren't quite big enough for a good music library. They were also a little too big and heavy, and they used Firewire as the interface which wasn't well supported at the time (or ever) on PCs.