* Bill Davis <newton_at_ecity.net> on Tue, 23 Oct 2001
| So how WOULD you define something that someone did first, eh? Seems to
| me that "first", "breakthrough" and "innovation" are pretty dang
| synonymous.
Newton was an innovation. The forked filesystem was an innovation.
Innovation means doing something completely new, or doing something old in
a completely new and different way. Nothing about iPod is innovative.
Nothing about it is really new. Disk-based MP3 players that can be used
for data storage and have fast (relatively speaking) host connections have
been around for a couple of years, now. If Apple had made the iPod before
the NJB or CPJB then yes, it would have been innovative, but it is two
years behind its competition. Better controls? Smaller size? Faster host
connection? Improved hot-sync? These are all evolution, not revolution.
An innovative iPod might have a 1GB Microdrive instead of a 5GB notebook
drive and would use the space for 802.11b so the unit could be used with
audio streamers over wireless networks.
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