On this day in 2001, Apple released the iPod.
On most digital music players of the day, “finding the songs you want to hear on them is as annoying as setting the digital clock on your VCR,” Fortune’s Brent Schlender wrote at the time. But the iPod was just “Plug it in. Whirrrrrr. Done,” according to Steve Jobs.
In other words, it just worked—a value today’s AI makers might want to keep in mind. —Andrew Nusca
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