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revfds t1_iy6zb48 wrote

Reply to comment by puttinonthefoil 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

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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