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puttinonthefoil t1_iy6xpke wrote

Reply to comment by revfds in TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else by wilymon

The first iPhone had pretty limited storage didn’t it? iPods at the time were way more storage capacity, so if you had a lot of music you probably couldn’t use the phone.

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revfds t1_iy6zb48 wrote

Yes, storage was much less, 4-16gb if I recall, but Pandora, Spotify, etc were things, and the ipods were basically iPhones that couldn't make calls.

I suppose beepers would be more analogous, as older people still had those despite having cell phones, but I think my point still stands, that people were willing to have multiple devices on them.

Also consider bandwidth. American telecommunications have always been stingy with bandwidth.

I'm not saying I wouldn't have thought it was dumb at the time, but this came at the end of a time where these things had some moderate success. It was considered that we would all have multiple devices, not one that did everything.

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puttinonthefoil t1_iy6zla7 wrote

I was agreeing with you! You needed both an iPod and an iPhone if you liked music (I kept my iPod when I got an iPhone 3GS years later).

Spotify was not a thing in 2007; it opened in the UK in 2010 and in the states in July 2011.

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revfds t1_iy6zvu2 wrote

Oh for sure, I wasn't saying you weren't, or disagreeing with you, just discussing. It must have been some other so then Spotify, I personally used a phone with an SD card, I've never done streaming music, so I'm only recalling what I saw others do.

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TheRealEvanG t1_iy801mn wrote

iPods in 2009 were not "basically iPhones that couldn't make calls."

Yes, the first iPod touch did exist in 2009, but it was ludicrously expensive compared to a shuffle or a nano, and adoption was slow. Nanos and Shuffles were much more popular in 2009, along with people hanging onto their Classics.

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