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RE: Portable Disk based Music Players, Menu Wheel and on-line shopping for music all predate Apple's iPod...(nt)

Posted by Thorsten (M) on August 16, 2012 at 00:21:08

In Reply to: RE: Portable Disk based Music Players, Menu Wheel and on-line shopping for music all predate Apple's iPod...(nt) posted by rick_m on August 15, 2012 at 22:56:12:

Rick,

I started listening to streaming music on my PC in the mid/late 90's, while working late at the office, some music box site with questionable legality. This was still via a DIAL UP LINK (but an unmetered one) as our Site did not yet have permanent connection to the net, that came 6 month later for the X400 (Route 400 E-Mail system). I was managing the local network back then.

I have followed anything in "computer music" quite closely since. Early hard drive and/or flash based Portable Juke Boxes came from Seahan (MPMan - 1997), Diamond (Rio - 1998), Compaq/Hango (Personal Jukebox 6GB HDD - 1998), Creative (Nomad 6GB HDD - 2000).

Tablet computers where championed by Microsoft and several manufacturers had ultra-compact (usually 13" Screen) Notebooks that allowed the screen to be folded down and thus became a "slate", some even made keyboard less pure slates.

Microsoft and HTC also did a lot of work on Touchscreen Smartphones, I had several over the Years since 2004, now I have a Droid Phone and a Droid 10" Tablet (not Samsung - I'm too cheap to spend money on Badges).

What you can take away from this is that Apple's advertising is so effective that it actually created to you the impression that all these items where invented by Apple (rather than copied from others).

Quite similar to what B*se has achieved in the Audio World, where everyone and their redneck cousin from the Ozark Mountains believes that B*se is actually HiFi, innovates and often that B*se has invented HiFi...

What is perhaps worse is that Apple and it's most devoted fans believe their own hype...

Ciao T

Thor

At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?

Edits: 08/16/12 08/16/12

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