Sometimes an image just speaks for itself.
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
48 responses to “iPod: What A Difference A Decade Makes [Image Cache]”
3.5mm jack will live forever!!!
Was the 30-pin on the original. If it wasn’t, the headphone jack is the only piece that is kind of the same. even though they significantly changed that.
looks like it was connected via firewire 800? at least for syncing, hate to say this but i never owned the original
That is firewire 400, isn’t it?
Great writing!!
even now the orig looks like a solid bit of kit. Nice and 2001.
30 pin was not on original. FireWire was the first choice, 30 pin came next.
Slow news day?
And means you can be lazy and not write anything! Great job!
It’s Firewire 400. 800 wasn’t invented yet.
Correct, 400 not 8
at least you could handle the old one firmly as well as control it with one hand in pocket
Because it’s jack norris?
You can plug in a headphone with remote controls, I’m not sure if they’re in the box though.
No headphones with remote control in iPod’s box.
Even Home button is hard to press with one hand because of slick rounded back of the device.
I love its screen & iOS and hate its form-factor.
Don’t you mean Chuck Norris. Wait… I see what you did there
You along with Jonathon Wilson, quite frankly, need to shut the fuck up.
What do you think needs to be said? His one sentence covers it. Not every article needs to be an essay.
Hey, finally a good John Brownlee article, one with pictures only! ;-p I’m sorry dude, you so opened the door and I couldn’t help myself. It’s all in good fun at this point. Excellent find with the photo, it’s awesome. :)
Still some gorgeous tech.
All tech is trade-offs
damn, you got owned.
400
ha!
I agree but still…
Let’s compare two iPad generation which sport roughly the same functionality.
The first one is a pleasure to grip (let’s set aside the weight issues). And handling iPad 2 is a pain with device’s tendency to slip off or turn in the hands because of its rounded back.
Maybe it’s only me, but, so far, all the people to whom I gave the both models to compare agreed with my conclusion…
So I think this is rather a kind of form-over-function issue.