09-30-2019, 01:14 PM
(09-30-2019, 12:35 PM)Klaus Wrote: Where did I state that Sony's walkman could play MP3? I suggest reading my comment.
If you want a reference to Sony's first solid-state drive music player - take this once:
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press...index.html
The ipod was released in 2001 - based on a HDD.
About Xerox vs Apple
The Lisa was released in 1983 (Mac: 1984).
The Xerox Alto was released in 1974.
Ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
If you don't like the Alto - take the Star ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star ) released in 1981 - featuring ... windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q
IBM Star introduced "touch" on a phone for the first time. And Smartphones did exist prior of the iphone - take the Nokia Communicator for instance.
My first smartphone was a HP/Compaq iPAQ (2004 or 2005).
Please get your dates, right.
I read your comment "At best that's a mild evolution of the original Sony Walkman concept", which is plain stupid, but with a limited and simpliefied perspective "something portable to play music and listen to it with earphones" and disregarding a rather complex selling infrastructure Sony never had, one can conclude this. Alone, this judgement falls back tot he source.
Again, you Sony walkman with it's overpriced memory sticks of 64 MB (at that time) should be a match for an iPod with a 5 GB harddrive? It's embarassing to bring up this lame business flop.
Bringing up the communciator as a smartphone is the next misconception in your conclusions. My calculator is smarter than this rubbish. So if you don't mind, I don't want to waste more time in pointing out the differences bewteen your stone age devices and the stuff Apple actually delivered as you appear narrow minded enough to just take tiny bits of unready tech which for itself lacked of success for very good reasons. They all failed because of highly isolated, proprietary concepts. Because of their lack of usability.
Best to be seen that nothing of this early crap survived until today and you'll have a hard time to find it in a technical museum. In other words, it was and remained insignificant.
If you have a hard time to admit Apple made using computers a lot easier, that's your problem. If you want disrespect this company as copy cats, even more your problem. It's just ridiculous.