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0 pointsJohnBooty12y ago0 comments

Even if all they do is do things better and more polished than others, that's something any company would do well to emulate.

And sometimes doing things simply in a "more polished" way is revolutionary.

The early, pre-iPod mp3 players were an absolute mess when it came to navigating your music. That doesn't show up on a spec sheet, but "creating the first mp3 player that lets you actually navigate your music in a simple and enjoyable manner" is pretty freaking revolutionary in my book.

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collyw12y ago

Yes and no. I mean you cad hardly say the iPod shuffle was a revolution in music navigation. They just marketed it right.

JohnBootyOP12y ago

It was a pretty good product for a lot of people! A lot of people, like me, just want to shuffle some music while we exercise and we're willing to trade fine-grained control for the fact that the device is as light as a feather.

It also has really respectable sound quality and volume, which is not always the case (to put it gently) for teeny tiny electronics.

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