By John Gruber
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Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo on the iPod Shuffle, back in January 2005:
So I think the whole industry will just laugh at it, because the flash people — it’s worse than the cheapest Chinese player. Even the cheap, cheap Chinese brand today has display and has FM.
Creative’s newest player? The display-less, FM-less, 1 GB clip-sized Zen Stone. Play/pause button in the middle, up/down for volume, left/right for previous/next track.
(Via Jussi Hagman.)
★ Thursday, 3 May 2007