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Predates HN, but the famous Slashdot review of the first iPod is one of those “moments in history” events when nobody really had any inkling of the coming change

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026

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Like "640k is enough for everybody", the iPod review isn't as bad as it seems in retrospect. It's a review of the first version of the iPod, which was Mac only and actually wasn't a great product yet. It was a few years and 2 versions later that they had a design breakthrough and started selling a lot of units. I don't think a reviewer should get dragged for not knowing that a product would be vastly improved a few versions later.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

https://www.lifewire.com/number-of-ipods-sold-all-time-19995...

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