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This week on Cybercultural, more early-2000s Apple 🍎, including why Steve Jobs didn't want online music to go the streaming route (which of course it eventually did). https://cybercultural.com/p/ipod-2002/ #InternetHistory

Cybercultural

2002: The Second iPod and Steve Jobs on Music Streaming

With its revolutionary 'touch wheel' and double the storage, Apple's 2nd gen iPod is the state of the art in digital music in 2002. But the future is online streaming, which Steve Jobs struggles to accept.

Jamie Knight

@knightlie@social.vivaldi.net replied · 3 days ago

@ricmac I’d saw my own foot off to be able to buy one of those iPods again. 🙁

Richard MacManus

@ricmac@mastodon.social replied · 3 days ago

@knightlie I think eBay has the gen 2s every now and then; maybe a few hundred dollars, but better than sawing off your foot :)

Andreas (82MHz)

@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied · 3 days ago

@ricmac
That was a very enjoyable read! This series is definitely my favourite about web history :)

Richard MacManus

@ricmac@mastodon.social replied · 3 days ago

@82mhz thank-you, wonderful to hear!

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