Steve Jobs' Biggest Lie, the iPod Hi-Fi
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Hi-Fi in Feb. 2006. He claimed that the audio was so good that he was going to replace all of his audiophile grade stereos with the iPod Hi-Fi. The iPod Hi-Fi was discontinued in Sept. 2007 due to poor sales.
I work as audio engineer. I rely on High End Studio Speakers, I am talking about these slightly costy studio speakers for the price of a new car. In my studio there is also an ....Apple ipod Hifi. In comparison to a 5000€ Genelec System they might sound a bit less ballanced, but for its pricetag and for its size .... there were (and still is) no competition. Bought mine 2006 and its still in everyday use, working perfect. The Apple ipod Hifi might be the most underrated Apple product. But seriously....To compare it with top class hifi speakers was absolutely no hype. My advice- test it with aac files with datarates of 320 kbit or with lossless files. Alternatively connect an optical signal with 48kHz 24bit to the input on the rear. Listen and - please - stop posting bullshit.
*cough bullshit cough cough*
Bull fucking shit
Ro To what kind of jack do you use.?
Ro To, could you please tell us how to connect an optical signal? I don’t get it 😅
Thank you
It’s an amazing speaker. The audiophile snobs will criticize it of course, but the public overall, says “it sounds amazing”.
Jobs was a great sales man but he oversold the HIFI. it was never going to compete with a proper stereo speaker set up, audiophile or not. however, as a one box speaker solution mp3 player it was a good product. Jobs should have kept it simple and focus on what the HIFI was: an improved Bose Sound dock with far superior build and sound.
I think he was simply sucked into his own reality distortion field.
how have they adandoned docking station support? iOS 7 works great and integrates natively with any random docking station on my iPhone 4s.
I just love how Bernd Lauert says piece of shit in all the videos related to the iPod Hi-Fi ... We know now who didn't get theirs for christmas
PS: The iPod Hi-Fi fuckin' rocks - the tip is to pur it on Bass Booster mode with an old compatible iPod
How’s it a lie, people just weren’t that interested
How did he lie? How do you know what he did in his house?
After the release of the iPod Hi-Fi he had this one prominently in his home and secretly kept his real hi-fi hidden under a cloth. For real listening when he was alone.
Look at all their new devices, They are leaning more towards wireless streaming, via Bluetooth and their own AirPlay technology... They encourage their 'Made for iPod' partners to transition to wireless technologies as their new devices won't be as suitable for docks.
I got one I found at goodwill. Sounds awesome and looks awesome too
Steve exaggerates a lot.
remember when steve tried convincing me that the original Iphone had Full OSX on it.
He complained that windows phones had stripped down versions of Windows Xp called Windows CE for mobile.
Well isn't IOS a stripped version of the Full MacOS?
I thought I was planning on installing Full Final Cut & Adobe Photoshop for mac on iphone. But realized I was trapped in some type of reality distortion field. HELP
There is photoshop on iOS and there are apps like Final Cut on it too. Most of those issues lie with the developers. But the tech is there, the machine can handle it.
@@ChuckBerrington he was referring to the first iPhone presentation where Steve basically told that the OS was based on Mac OSx, but eventually it only supported web apps until they launched the App Store a year later.
But to be fair Steve never said that you could install desktop software on the iPhone.
@@nicolaramoso3286 I know what he meant. Chances are it did run a very basic version of OS X. It's really naive to compare Window's phone to what iPhone had at launch. iPhone was at least 5 years ahead of what anyone had on mobile, and I'm not including the hardware. One year later they added the app store and changed everything. That reality distortion field appears to be in Michael's basement bedroom.
They were not that good of speakers tbh. Overpriced with average audio frequency range. Any audiophile would know better than to think that these things were that good.
Ah yes, frequency range
If only it had a dedicated tweeter and was cheaper
HiFi out of a 24bit DAC
Very good quality video!!!!
I’m glad people are stupid and didn’t like it. Now I buy them used and cheap. I have 4 and looking for more. I set up 4 of them together and DJ pool parties. Plus they look better than black DJ PA speakers and have deeper bass.
Although a lot of the core discoveries around mp3 and audio quality through a high end speaker were used again in HomePod.
This was Steve Jobs' biggest lie? He told so many lies. It would years to sort through them all and work out which was the biggest one.
Luke Beauchamp go tell some lies and become 1% of Steve Jobs. Hope you’re not stupid anymore after 6 years.
@@jcs184 Damn, ironic that you should be calling him stupid when your comment is amongst the most moronic things I’ve ever read.
Baby Jiren yeah, read at least 1 book. You sound ignorant.
@@jcs184 Really, I sound ignorant? You're the one posting silly little one-liners and then calling everyone else stupid.
No one is disputing that Steve Jobs was successful. But it's pretty much confirmed that he was a psychopath, sociopath, narcissist and a liar. And what you're saying is essentially "yeah but he made lots of money so who cares".
Says a lot about your moral compass and integrity. Hope you're proud of yourself.
@@babyjiren9676 "But it's pretty much confirmed that he was a psychopath, sociopath, narcissist and a liar."
Really dude? talking about moral compass? You have absolutely no idea how Steve Jobs has changed your life and billions of others, even if do not use apple products. That's why you're ignorant.
That's why I prefer Bluetooth speaker systems for my Galaxy Note 2!... After all, Apple have pretty much abandoned their docking station support.
BTW most the Sony stereo's had a port for Walkman compatibility. Walkmans kinda sucked after the discman era
This could be true if his stereo is old speakers are like computers they advance quick and get alot better when they do but with his money he would buy the newest audiophile what ever the hell
A tiny tiny one :))