What really stands the test of time is that apartment in the commercial. I’d happily call it home. Those khakis on the other hand... Read more

“Create a thing that nobody thinks they need. Convince people that they need it.” Read more

Ah... I remember these days. At first mention of the iPod at the $399 price, I remember everyone at school scoffing about them; at least until a handful of kids got them for xmas. Then the iPod became the biggest “I need one because they have one” little toy in modern history. Read more

Same. My iPod Shuffle (many years old now) is my only Apple product, but I still love the little sucker. And it’s still functioning, which is a plus. Read more

They sold 376,000 units of a $400 product in its first year when the MP3 player market was relatively small. $140M was a successful start for a new consumer product at the time, and it nearly tripled that the following year. It was the market leader very quickly. Read more

I think we all know where the guy from that first iPod commercial ended up 15 years later, and in the same bad fitting wardrobe no less!

I have an iPod nano that I think is 4th generation which I got in 2009, and I freaking love it. I teach spin classes and keep all of my playlists on it. The navigation is super easy and I know some instructors who use their phones that have had issues with their music stopping or restarting when they receive calls or… Read more

That quote is actually about why he didn’t believe in focus groups, he also has quotes about you cant innovate by asking customers what to do next (the quotes in this article being perfect proof of that). Read more

Not to get all hipster on you, but I got an iPod about eight months after they came out, in my senior year of college and people acted like I was a fucking weirdo for having it. And they thought the earbuds were the strangest thing they had ever seen. Read more

Honestly, I think their failure was more of a failure to understand how much of a game changer iTunes would be than anything else. In and of itself, the iPod was nothing more than a more intuitive and better designed, but far more expensive version of a niche product in a market where music companies were still… Read more

Is that a commercial for IPod or cocaine? Read more

The jury is still out about the watch (I think it’ll do fine but not add up to more than a few % of Apple’s ginormous sales numbers). The thing I’ve noticed with iPads is that THEY LAST FOREVER. Plenty of people are running iPad 2s and being happy with them and seeing no reason to update whatsoever. The newer ones are… Read more

Agree to an extent, especially on 1st generation Apple products. I just returned the new MacBook for a MacBook Pro because the keyboard made my fingers sad and even if USB-C is the future, it’s not the present and I resent buying dongles/having to share the only port into my computer with the power cord. Read more

Steve Jobs once said “It’s not the customer’s job to know what they want.” I mull that over at times, it’s almost scary in its implications of what corporations can do.
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Thanks for reminding me that it was four-hundred United States dollars. My dad laughed in my face when I asked for one for Christmas - then raged when my mother bought it. Read more

The first two iPods really were pretty crappy and didn’t sell crazy amounts. It wasn’t till third gen that they really nailed it and it took off, and that’s what we remember.
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This is great. Reminds me of forums when the iPad came out. “Um...I have a Mac and an iPhone. WHY would I buy an iPad??? Piece of expensive useless garbage, won’t last.” Read more

Anyone remember micro cds and zip disks? Anyone? Bueller?

I got my first one in spring of 2004. I remember even then thinking it was really more a work tool for musicians like me (I need to carry around a lot of music that I’m learning/studying) and never imagined how popular it would be. At the time I bought mine, only one other person I knew had one - and that was what… Read more

I want my entire music collection in that phone...GET ON IT! Only thing I can think of when shown the real Steve Jobs. Read more