The New Ipods

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Originally Posted by Valiant

Actually IPOD gets most of their ideas last, they just happen to have the best marketing period. Ipod did not start the mp3's, they did not do color screens first, hell they stole the name of nano from creative. Still wondering what will happen with that in court. Apple just has the best marketing out of anybody. They do not have shit for innovation compared to everybody else and at the price. Just marketing, marketing, marketing.

That's a minority opinion... no a fringe opinion, right there. Apple didn't "start the mp3's" but they sure exploded it into a business that is about to overtake their computer business. A business that many competitors including Microsoft are dying to get a piece of. It's not all marketing. They innovated when it comes to the user interface if nothing else. Was there another harddrive-based mp3 player in existence when the first iPod came out? If so, it was such a marginal product that no one remembers it.