Comments on: Apple admits it didn't invent the iPod

Kane Kramer claims that Apple has finally admitted that he is the real father of the iPod.

[cyberDJ-2038765336053745013836]

Everybody knows Apple didn't invent the iPod.

We just need Apple to admit that the iPod isn't the best player on the market.
Market-share domination doesn't necessarily translate to product superiority.

[arosania]

Yeah, right... just after Microsoft admits Vista is a failure, as per your last sentence.

Geez... get a life...

[geotopia]

Feature wise and by price, it's obvious that the iPod isn't the best on the market. One of the best, but not the best. HOWEVER, it's not the hardware, but the PC/Mac host and iTunes ecosystem with which it plays so nicely that makes it the leader. Apple really had that one figured out back in 2001, when it looked like such a gamble. iPod's success is old news, but the future question is whether AppleTV and the iPhone will similarly succeed in dominating the market.

[joetesta70]

Ummm...it's actually the best player, let's face it. That's why people like it.

Apple stole the Windows interface from Xerox too. That's the way the industry works sometimes...

$teve Job$ is still a greedy creep.

[JonB.]

Get it right. Apple ask Xerox if they could use it, because the PARCS staff had no commercial plan for the interface.
MS settled out of court with Apple after MS addmited that they had stolen the interface version from Apple (MS's Windows 3.1) after Apple won't sell it to them.

[movie_demon]

Jobs is a greedy creep, I'll give you that - but he didn't steal the Windows interface from Xerox. At that point in time, there was no such thing as Windows, and Microsoft was still selling DOS.

What he got from Xerox was the idea for a graphical user interface and a mouse. You could make an argument that he stole it, but it wasn't like he broke in - they invited him. And it was technology that they had kind of shelved because they decided it wasn't appropriate for their market.

So Jobs took it and made it the Mac OS... and then Bill Gates (who used to be a greedy creep, but now not so much) stole it from Jobs and THAT became Windows.

[GuyBlaise]

Even though Mr Kramer didn't get full credit for his invention, sooner or later he will be recognized.
Still his mind never stopped working. His future invention called Monicall should be a great product.
As the Berbers of Algeria say,"Intelligence is like garden: uncultivated, there is no harvest."
http://guyblaise.com/

[stevenrich4472]

The monicall is illegal in the USA, unless you tell all parities on the phone you are recording the phone call.

[baconstang]

So? The Vikings discovered North America....So?

[unclepain]

How can one discover a land mass that already has inhabitants on it? But I digress...

[RainCaster]

Invented or not, the earth still revolves around Steve Jobs.

We are not worthy!

[rebel101151]

eventually jobs will be a washup and mac will be more "user friendly" and lose its mac touch.its only a matter of time.....good luck jobs i do love macs.

[LEPTANDRUM]

And I thought the Audible Otis was the first on the scene. Check with Audible.com on this Mr Jobs

[amylynnhill]

The iPod is NOT the best mp3 player out there. I am in love with the SanDisk line, and love the Rhapsody music service. Why would I pay a dollar a song when I can just pay 15 bucks a month and download over 2 million songs!?!!?! And I have owned the same SanDisk player for almost 2 years now. Their warranty service is awesome too, it's lifetime so that means if it ever breaks I can call them, they send me prepaid shipping labels, I send it back, they either fix it or send me a new one. Can't beat it for about 1/4 the price of a lame iPod.