iPod, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPod comes up
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 19:01 Benedict Evans I mean, it reminds me, I was on a, um, I remember, like, in, I think, 2002 or three, talking to the CTO of Motorola, and he was talking about how hard it was to put a hard disk into a mobile phone to compete with the iPod, because, you…
- ▶ 19:17 Benedict Evans And at the same time, Apple, of course, and they're not putting, they're not thinking about hard disk, so putting Flash to make the iPod Nano.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans You know, on, in one level they created this, it's sort of multiple stages of irony here, because on one level they were perfectly aware that smartphones were going to kill the iPod, and that's one of the reasons why creating the iPhone…
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 6:37 Benedict Evans That all your music was in DRM, DRM, it was encoded in a certain way, or, you know, it was a pain to switch from device to device, to switch from an iPod to something else or back again.
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 3:12 Benedict Evans Yeah, yeah, no one wants an iPad that can play, an iPod that can play video.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 12:28 Benedict Evans Which is what, you know, nine, tens of people who are watching the event said it was just a big iPod touch, what a stupid idea.
- ▶ 13:04 Benedict Evans So you kind of look at it and you think, is this like, is this the iPod, iPad mistake that you kind of looked at it, and you didn't understand how much it changed things, and you have to have it in your hand and use it before you'll…
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 5:38 Benedict Evans Well, this is a really funny thing that when the iPad came out, people were saying, the critics said, oh, it's just a big iPod touch. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
- ▶ 14:51 Benedict Evans And the puzzle I have around all of these devices is they're all sort of pre-iPod.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 5:45 Benedict Evans You see the same thing for the iPod, which took almost five years to work, an overnight success that took five years.