6 years ago, people thought that iPod would suck

[Peegee]

...now, despite what I'd like to happen, iPods are more popular than pokemon..

Seriously: sauce: Apple's New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500)

6 years ago, if you were still alive, what did you look forward to, and what did you expect would suck? What ended up happening? ASL?

[Namelessfengir]

it does suck

[Rengori]

6 years ago I was 9. So I guess, uh... New episodes of Dexter's Lab not sucking?

[Fonzie]

it does suck

NO U

[Woodinator]

Yeah I never imagined Ipods getting as popular as they are...I remember hearing friends complain how they freeze up and stuff and saying I'd never get one.. yeah that didn't last long.

I remember when we first got the internet and thinking AOL was the greatest thing ever...funny loooking back on that

[Seraphic]

6 years ago...would make me a preteen,oh no! lol
At my young age of 13 theres no way I could've fathomed the responsibility given to me now.
What I would've looked forward to I guess would be college,which I'm in now and what would suck ummm....i guess high school which it did on some levels (like for everyone)

[Shlup]

it does suck

*high five*

[Bunny]

Zune > iPod.

I look forward to nothing.

[rubah]

hmm six years ago I was looking forward to the first harry potter movie. It was surprisingly kiddie.

[iostiogic]

iPoods do suck
they are just trendy flash drives with headphone jacks.
selling a way of life, ftw, go apple.

[eestlinc]

six years ago I was in college. i was too poor to have an iPod. Now I am in school again, and I listen to my nano on the bus.

[Mr Cactuar]

Back then I was 10-11 playing with Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I have now discovered that the only good thing to come from Yu-Gi-Oh is the Abridged series.

[Breine]

Although the iPod is very popular I hear that there are a lot of complains about them compared to other MP3 players out there. Maybe they have that many flaws, or maybe iPods are just that much more popular than the other players that more people are bound to call in and complain? I dunno.

Anyway, back on topic: 6 years ago I was 13 and it was 2001.. Hmm. I remember that I at that age only had eyes for PlayStation and not Nintendo and X-Box (still don't.. X-Box = ugh), and so when the GameCube was released I didn't think about buying it because I surely thought that I would have enough in my dear PlayStation 2, but man did I turn.. I now also own a GameCube and it's probably as dear to me as my PlayStation 2. So, for this generation of consoles I've decided beforehand to buy both a PlayStation 3 and a Wii.. I'm still not down with the X-Box, but who knows.. maybe I will be some day (not likely, though).

[theundeadhero]

Six years ago I was in college looking forward to a future. I didn't even know what an iPod was.

[DK]

My dad randomly got me an iPod for my birthday one year as a total surprise, that was 3 years ago and it still works perfectly so I certainly have no complaints. :monster:

6 years ago I had no clue what I was going to do with my life and certainly didn't anticpate me being where I am now.

[blackmage_nuke]

Years ago i couldnt wait to go riding on a hover board like on back to the future 2. Theres still about 8 years to go to invent them though.

I prefer other mp3 players to ipods though. And i refuse to capitalise the p in ipod

[Zeldy]

Zen > Apple.

Six years ago I wasn't even in high school, like I can remember. I was, what, 9?

[Momiji]

Hmm...6 years ago, I would have been in the 11-12-years-old area. So hmm... I was probably hoping high school would be okay (HAHAHA no. It's easy, but I hate every second of it.) I'm so excited to graduate in February!~

[edczxcvbnm]

6 years ago I expected that our president was going to be the biggest idiot ever XD

[LunarWeaver]

Oh my, when I was 15... I didn't look forward to anything D: I don't look forward to anything now. Gee, that's mighty bleak. I should have, like, goals or some crap.

[Miriel]

I was looking forward to the Lord of the Rings movies. Really really really looking forward to them.

[The Ceej]

Back in summer of last year, I bought an iPod at a yard sale. It was a 4th gen color screen and I paid $75 for it. I wish I hadn't because it broke in November and I bought a brand new 5.5 gen from Wal-Mart with the money I won from the casino on the cruise in late December. If I hadn't bought the first one, I wouldn't have needed the second one. I tell people that ask me about my iPod not to buy one, stating as my main reason that it's, "a bundle of headaches you can't live without." From now on, I'll always need an iPod, thanks to my neighbor who had to sell hers at an attractive price.

Yeah. They do suck.

[Tavrobel]

Six years ago I was downloading illegal music. Those were the days!

[Iceglow]

Six years ago I thought several things, things I don't remember now. However I do believe I-pods suck because: 1) I-tunes + charges for downloading = wtf you want to RESTRICT my choice of music software then try to sell me songs at £1 a song? NO U! (2) Headphones, the headphones supplied with the I-pod imo suck. If I was to go buy headphones I like the style of (sony ones similar to the ones given on the hands free kit for the Sony Ericson walkman phones) I would then have to pay in the region of £40 for a pair of headphones for it. (3) I'd like to have an 80 gig or bigger I-pod so I could store copious amounts of music on it that I no longer have room for on my hdd but would like to keep and listen to. This costs £150+ therefore I'm paying more than the cost of your average walkman phone and well walkman phones allow me to make phone calls/text people too and all on one piece of technology. (4) They don't supply them generally to my knowlege with cases. However to keep an I-pod looking nice and working fully (in the case of the touch control ones) you have to therefore go buy a case for it which I-pod (apple) and select third party companies control the market for therefore meaning you've gotta pay like £10 - 20 for a nice case. Factor all these together and I'll stick to my walkman phone, it might only have a limited memory of perhaps 2 - 5 gig if I got a new one with the expansion slot on it's memory and a big enough memory chip (which would cost a fair bit) but I can atleast get a camera, make calls, send texts, and listen to music on one machine.

[theundeadhero]

Six years ago I was in college looking forward to a future. I didn't even know what an iPod was.Alternately, I now have no future, but I own an iPod.

[KentaRawr!]

Six years ago? I can't remember what I thought six YEARS ago! My gosh.

[Bunny]

Six years ago I was in college looking forward to a future. I didn't even know what an iPod was.Alternately, I now have no future, but I own an iPod.

So do I, it holds my papers down very well.

[Rengori]

Six years ago I was downloading illegal music. Those were the days!

There's "illegal music"? :shifty: Is it smokable?

[JackNapier]

I was probably anticipating new episodes of DBZ or something.

[XxSephirothxX]

Six years ago I was looking forward to the release of the Gamecube in the same way a more devout man may have been waiting for the second coming of Jesus.

[Shiny]

it does suck
Yes.



6 years ago, if you were still alive, what did you look forward to, and what did you expect would suck? What ended up happening? ASL?
In 2001 I was looking forward to the Xbox. I was dead. It was fine. OMG!

[o_O]

Six years ago I was running Windows 98, and thought that Vista (Well, Longhorn :p) would never be released. It might as well not have been. :p

I also thought iPods would suck and I still do, but hats off to Apple for making 9 out of every 10 people want one. My phone does a better job of being an mp3 player. :p

[theundeadhero]

Six years ago I was looking forward to the release of the Gamecube in the same way a more devout man may have been waiting for the second coming of Jesus.Was the first time you played one like a religous experience?

[Fonzie]

Bottled water. =/

[MKusanagi]

I really did put up a fight but then I realized... iPod! It gives you wings!

[mooglebunni608]

Six years ago I looked forward to getting a new Spyro the Dragon game at Christmas, and a bright future as a chef. How things change, ><

[MKusanagi]

I also was sure I'd become Tomb Raider. Now I know it could never happen. I hate history.

[Araciel]

it does suck

QF mutha' smurfing T

also, i barely remember yesterday

[The Ceej]

1) I-tunes + charges for downloading = wtf you want to RESTRICT my choice of music software then try to sell me songs at £1 a song? NO U!

I have an iPod and I refuse to install iTunes. You don't need iTunes to have an iPod. If you know anything about computers, you realize that there are better ways of putting music on the iPod.

[Leeza]

Six years was a whole different life ago in almost every way and I didn't know what an mp3 was let alone an iPod. I now own a SanDisk. :cat:

[Heath]

1) I-tunes + charges for downloading = wtf you want to RESTRICT my choice of music software then try to sell me songs at £1 a song? NO U!

I have an iPod and I refuse to install iTunes. You don't need iTunes to have an iPod. If you know anything about computers, you realize that there are better ways of putting music on the iPod.

To be fair though, most people don't and are forced to use iTunes. Regardless of ways around it, it's still a really irritating program that most people have to use. Or at least I found it to be quite irritating.

I suppose 6 years ago I was wondering when I'd actually get to select which subjects to drop later on in high school, which seems ages ago now. Having said that, I suppose the actual decision was only five years ago. Was also waiting on the release of the GameCube like mad.

[theundeadhero]

You don't have to buy a single song from iTunes. I never have, and my iPod isn't empty.

[tidus_rox]

Zune > iPod.

I look forward to nothing.
Is your soul black?!?!?
Lol... you are a dark person, Bun... It scares me sometimes.
Be happy! :D
Yeah, I don't like iPods, either. They bug the crap out of me. On the other hand, Zunes are great! I don't have one, but I would like to.
See ya, I have a bussiness project to do :p

[Peegee]

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[Baloki]

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14/f/cali, u?

[Peegee]

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14/f/cali, u?

69, female, united kingdom (who knows the joke?)

[Baloki]

Oh how the mighty AOL has fallen :(

[Peegee]

Oh how the mighty AOL has fallen :(

PG is the new aol

[Mirage]

iPods do suck.

[Tallulah]

My parents are loathe to get me an iPod for Christmas, as they don't know what the smurf one is! They're all up for buying me an XBox 360 though.

[The Ceej]

1) I-tunes + charges for downloading = wtf you want to RESTRICT my choice of music software then try to sell me songs at £1 a song? NO U!

I have an iPod and I refuse to install iTunes. You don't need iTunes to have an iPod. If you know anything about computers, you realize that there are better ways of putting music on the iPod.

To be fair though, most people don't and are forced to use iTunes. Regardless of ways around it, it's still a really irritating program that most people have to use. Or at least I found it to be quite irritating.

I believe everyone who matters uses Winamp anyway. Winamp not only comes with an adequate plugin for using iPod, but also has a third party plugin which is 1.5 million times better than iTunes called ml_ipod. If you didn't know this, then you don't use Winamp, and the last part is self-explanitory.

That being said, anyone who uses iTunes, in spite of this information, fails at life. And judging by the fact that no one here seems to like iTunes, I believe it's more or less safe for me to say this.

[Levian]

...now, despite what I'd like to happen, iPods are more popular than pokemon..

But can an iPod perform a Thundershock attack while crying Pika Pika? I DON'T THINK SO!

[Resha]

iPods are awesome :p A LIFELINE. *swat for the haters*

Six years ago I was ten. I was sticking Britney Spears stickers on my folders and pretending to be "cool" at school. :shifty: Jesus am I glad I grew or what

[Shiny]

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ASL?

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14/f/cali, u?

69, female, united kingdom (who knows the joke?)

69 fuk?