How innovative is the iPod?
I’m sure everyone has seen and probably used an iPod? I have one myself and (mostly) love it. The scroll wheel is very handy to use and usually makes things simpler. It has been proclaimed as great new technology and the thing that sets the iPod apart from everyone else.
I have to question the innovation though. This is partly a dig because of all the ‘Microsoft can’t create anything new, they alway steal it’ talk that I’ve had to endure. Now it’s my turn.
I seem to remember back 30 years ago. I remember sitting in a friends basement. We were playing his new game system. He, unfortunately, didn’t have an Atari. He had an Intellivision. Totally different and different games. One of the different things was that he didn’t have a normal joystick like I did. He had this weird hand held remote control looking things. Instead of a joystick, it had this wheel on it. You could spin it (sound familiar) to move the cursor online to select things and control your guys. Hmmm. Seems that this technology has come back around and is being used for something else now. Let me see, what do I have that is using a wheel like this. Hm…. I’ll have to think on that one as I revisit my friend to play his old school Intellivision……