Funny post about Apple and Slashdot

Hmm, when I read the post the comments were pretty positive. Depending on your moderation settings, you can get some varying results. Also, you mention one negative response. There's 737 replies to that post. Thats kind of why Slashdot is so good, because of the amount of responses and varying points of view. Don't read Slashdot if you don't want to, but not reading because you don't like certain responses seems lind of lame.

Pfft what are you talking about. The first iPods were great. iPods have lost many of the great features they once had. 1 hour for almost a full charge, Firewire port for charging/connecting to your computer so that you didn't have to use anything extra just for your iPod. All that they have added has been more space, a couple new games, notes, and some crappy new dock connector.

Sorry Ian! Fixing now...

And it's Ian Betteridge, not "Betterbridge" :) I am being slightly cruel to /., in that I remember when the iPod was announced I wasn't overly impressed. However, a couple of days later I got my hands on one - and instantly ordered my own.

It's a "moot" point, not a "mute" point. Nevermind.

I dunno about the current efficacy of Slashdot, but their original comments about the first iPod were spot on. The first gen units really sucked, and at that time iTunes was not nearly as useful as it is now. That's why folks flocked to other options like Rio. Apple didn't get the iPod right until the 3rd generation, in my opinion.

narco: Rating 5, Funny LD: Rating 4, Insightful /. has dropped off my radar too. Old news, and if you get to comments more than 16.3 seconds after the post goes up you have 395 comments ranting about SCO, Jobs, Gates, monkeys, butter, or all 5 at once. Plus, they have rejected some pretty boss stories (ahem). Besides, why slashdot when you can read the fine blogs here?

I stopped reading /. because it sucks. Old news, lame comments, lots of fighting.

If you go down to the comments of this post, it states, very fairly, that since the iPod was released, it has gone on to be a USB device that works on a PC. There was no way it could have caught on without that, so it's not really fair to blame that post on Slashdot.

I'm very much in agreement with johnny Won's statements above. Slashdot may have fallen off somewhat, but it's still pretty good.