Did you ever get to use one of the old iPods with a click wheel interface? That thing is a genuine legend of engineering, and deservedly so. They definitely spent a lot on marketing, but marketing wasn’t their only advantage.
Iconic, not legendary engineering, the click wheel got annoying, scrolling over tracks you wanted select, scrolling when you click it, etc, it was far from perfect.
The first iPhone was something like $600 vs the Prada at $750 or something. Both were certainly “luxury”. Especially compared to say my BlackBerry Pearl I had around that time which was around $200.
Yes because that worked out so well for them…
You’re right. But the only thing Apple had over those other music players was marketing.
Did you ever get to use one of the old iPods with a click wheel interface? That thing is a genuine legend of engineering, and deservedly so. They definitely spent a lot on marketing, but marketing wasn’t their only advantage.
Yes I did. But admittedly very young. How was it a “legend of engineering”?
This article says it better than I can
It says you could use it without looking at it. Which was true of all music players at the time. Many didn’t even have a display. What else ya got?
https://uxdesign.cc/the-click-wheel-one-of-apples-most-iconic-designs-3bd131281a51
Iconic, not legendary engineering, the click wheel got annoying, scrolling over tracks you wanted select, scrolling when you click it, etc, it was far from perfect.
That’s rich. At the very least they had the first consumer touchscreen smartphone.
Technically that was the LG Prada a few months before the iPhone. The iPhone was the first multitouch smartphone however.
That was a luxury luxury phone and the reason I wrote “consumer”. but now I realize luxury things are also consumer goods-
The first iPhone was something like $600 vs the Prada at $750 or something. Both were certainly “luxury”. Especially compared to say my BlackBerry Pearl I had around that time which was around $200.