boxlunch
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I'm sitting here admiring the form and function of my third iPod - my new second gen Nano. Apple has consistently combined amazing ergonomic and stunning physical design with solid applications and usability. Owning iPods definitely made it very easy for me to switch from being a PC user to a Mac as well
My admiration of the iPod is due in part to the other, lesser MP3 players I used before buying my first iPod in late 2003. So this got me wondering about all of you: Was your first portable MP3 player an iPod, or did you need to suffer through some bad designs like I did?
My first MP3 player, early 2001, was a Diamond Rio 800. 64Mb of memory, mediocre battery life. Fortuantely I didn't pay for this one, my wife won it at a radio station. Lasted about a year before the battery stopped recharging.
My next (non)mp3 was a Sony Net-MD, in mid 2002. This lasted about a week, since at this time it didn't have support for mp3s, so I had to make a copy of my library to Sony's format. Aside from this, the Net-MB sounded like crap, so I exchanged it for a Rio Volt (the black cd-mp3 player with built-in FM tuner). This lasted a good while, until I dropped some big bucks on my first iPod, a 20Gb 3rd generation (they were close to $600 CDN at the time, ugh!).
And the rest is history! Bright colour screen and 24 hour battery life on the current Nano is simply amazing, not to mention the ever-decreasing price of new models (my wife has a first gen Nano in black as well). So please share the tale of your road to iPod happiness!
My admiration of the iPod is due in part to the other, lesser MP3 players I used before buying my first iPod in late 2003. So this got me wondering about all of you: Was your first portable MP3 player an iPod, or did you need to suffer through some bad designs like I did?
My first MP3 player, early 2001, was a Diamond Rio 800. 64Mb of memory, mediocre battery life. Fortuantely I didn't pay for this one, my wife won it at a radio station. Lasted about a year before the battery stopped recharging.
My next (non)mp3 was a Sony Net-MD, in mid 2002. This lasted about a week, since at this time it didn't have support for mp3s, so I had to make a copy of my library to Sony's format. Aside from this, the Net-MB sounded like crap, so I exchanged it for a Rio Volt (the black cd-mp3 player with built-in FM tuner). This lasted a good while, until I dropped some big bucks on my first iPod, a 20Gb 3rd generation (they were close to $600 CDN at the time, ugh!).
And the rest is history! Bright colour screen and 24 hour battery life on the current Nano is simply amazing, not to mention the ever-decreasing price of new models (my wife has a first gen Nano in black as well). So please share the tale of your road to iPod happiness!