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Funny post about Apple and Slashdot

iPod PhotoIan Betteridge has a funny (and insightful) post up on his blog, Technovia, called Why I rarely read Slashdot anymore. He points to this old Slashdot thread about the announcement of the first iPod and asks us to gaze at the typically pessimistic Slashdot comments on the post. One comment that he singles out and that was rated 4 for being Insightful notes "I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."

Betteridge follows up the comment by noting: "As of March, Apple had sold over 15 million iPods." So much for /. insight. ;-)

Ian Betteridge has a funny (and insightful) post up on his blog, Technovia, called Why I rarely read Slashdot anymore. He points to this...
 

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Tom

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.

August 19 2005 at 7:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bootes

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.

August 19 2005 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
C.K. Sample, III

Sorry Ian! Fixing now...

August 19 2005 at 7:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ian Betteridge

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.

August 19 2005 at 5:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ED

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

August 18 2005 at 10:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
umijin

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.

August 18 2005 at 9:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

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?

August 18 2005 at 7:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LD

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

August 18 2005 at 6:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Akshat

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.

August 18 2005 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
stevej

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

August 18 2005 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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