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Re:20 years of the iPod by cma on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:19PM (#28979325)
The NOMAD used a large laptop drive that wasn't pocketable and used a lot of power. Apple bought exclusive music player rights to Toshiba's tiny drive giving them a temporary monopoly.
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Re:20 years of the iPod by monkeyau on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:33PM (#28983622)
You could take it apart though which was nice. When mine was on it's last legs, hard-drive clicking to death, I swapped in a cheap 250gb laptop drive and could finally carry all of my music library around instead of having to pick and choose.

Upgraded to a Zune after the battery on my Zen died. The screen and UI were great imo, sad it didn't stick around.

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