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Sure but I'm betting more MP3's than anything else, by a very long distance.
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Hagbart
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Copenhagen, Europe
Feb 2002
time: 06:34
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Originally posted by Asher
Creative was the first to make portable MP3 players. They were the first to make a HD-based MP3 player. They are the first to make portable media players.
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Before iPod was Creative Jukebox, a big bulky devise, larger and heavier than a diskman. Using USB1, tiny display, bad skip protection. Ugly as hell and anti-userfriendly.
The iPod came and changed the mp3-player world. It was severel generations ahead of the competition.
Using the 10 times faster firewire, having a large display, the size of a deck of cards, the great scrollwheel (which can scroll thru 1000 songs in a couple of seconds), supreme sound and syncing with iTunes. The design was a piece of art.
Later the iPod clones appeared. Among those we have the Zen. An example of one of the 100 clones are below.
Today no company has yet managed to push the iPod from its throne of the mp3player world!
The iPod brought mp3 players from the geeks to the common people (who can afford it of course,  )
Just accept that the iPod has had a tremendous effect of the world of portable digital music players. Denying this will make you look silly. 
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:34
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
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First to bring the Graphical User interface to personal computers.
First to bring the mouse to personal computers. |
Both were invented by Xerox, however. They just didn't start shipping them before Apple stole the idea.
The others have been covered by Asher. |
You'll believe anything he says, won't you?
Check out the facts. The Macintosh GUI was quite different from the Xerox GUI. If you bothered reading around you would find that Jef Raskin, the chief mac designer had come up with these ideas long before Xerox put them to work.
Raskin wrote his PhD thesis on GUIs in the 60s.
http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html
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My thesis in Computer Science, published in 1967, argued that computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness. This was heretical in 1967, half a decade before PARC started. Many of the basic principles of the Mac were firmly entrenched in my psyche. By the way, the name of my thesis was the "Quick-Draw Graphics System", which became the name of (and part of the inspiration for) Atkinson's graphics package for the Mac. |
Moreover, the story that Jobs went to PARC and came back to start the Macintosh is simply false. The Mac project had been up and running for months before Jobs went to PARC.
The similarities between the Mac OS and Xerox GUI have been wildly exaggerated Like most major inventions the development process was not linear and involved a large amount of cross fertilisation.
Here's the other article that Raskin references.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020808....com/horn1.html
Anyway, have you ever seen Xerox Star? This is what it looked like. 
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