“Gadgets of every description have flowed through the doors of CNET for 10 years. Picking a list of the 10 best is an exercise in healthy but vocal arguments. Everyone has a different idea of what is meant by best,” Tom Merritt writes for CNET. “But the 10 we’ve included here had the most wide-ranging acceptance.”
CNET’s Top 10 Products for the Last 10 Years:
1. iPod (2001): “No other product has had the incredible, loyal devotion that the iPod inspires. It’s also one of only a handful of products to get a 9 rating from CNET. It revolutionized and popularized music players with its stylish design and is still considered the industry leader. Even if you devoutly believe other music players have better features now, you have to acknowledge that iPod is still the king.”
2. TiVo (1999)
3. Google (1996)
4. Original Napster (1999): “Here’s a product that wouldn’t make the list in its current form, but the original version came close to deserving the phrase ‘changed the world.'”
5. Firefox (2004)
6. PalmPilot (1996): “When PalmPilots first came out in 1996, they changed the way everyone thought about personal organization. It seems natural to have an electronic calendar in the palm of your hand now, but that wasn’t really true before 1996. No, we haven’t forgotten the Newton, but that didn’t really succeed, did it?”
7. Motorola Startac (1996)
8. Apple iMac (1998): “The thought of an Apple computer being meaningful was laughable before the iMac. Apple had fallen on hard times, and some predicted its death. Now some of those same pundits say the iMac saved it. Whatever you think, the iMac set Apple on the road to dominating through style and functionality rather than sheer features and power.”
9. Sony Digital Mavica MVC-HD5 (1997)
10. The Sims (2000)
Full article here.
where is everybody?
We are all over at Kantor.com, flaming Mr. “Journalist”.
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They are busy ripping Andrew Kantor apart!
Others are celebrating Mexico Independence Day… There is a lot of folklore and, specially, a lot of beer an tequila!
No, we’re watching College GameDay. Go Seminoles!
How they didn’t mention Netscape from circa 1992 or so is beyond me. That is what made the internet available to “the masses”. A far more important event than Firefox 2004 or Google of 1996.
Outside in the hammock. Sometimes with iPod, sometimes not.
‘Best 10 Products of Last 10 Years’ list
Netscape = 13 years ago
> How they didn’t mention Netscape from
> circa 1992 or so is beyond me.
If you could count up to ten it wouldn’t…..
torn80: “How they didn’t mention Netscape from circa 1992 or so is beyond me. That is what made the internet available to “the masses”. A far more important event than Firefox 2004 or Google of 1996.”
Well, torn80, I sympathize but can’t help noticing that 1992 was more than 10 years ago.
We could nitpick & argue that the iMac should have been higher & TiVo lower. Still a good showing by Apple though (esp. when at least three of the ten were part of the Bad Old Days).
Hmm, notice that none of the various Windows versions made the list (gee, what happened to all that MS innovation?).
So the top ten list has 2 Apple products and how many from M$FT?
Just a passing observation
>So the top ten list has 2 Apple products and how many from M$FT?
M$FT got their two entries on this list… heh, heh
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6313439-1.html?tag=bottom
Microsoft has a whole PIPELINE of innovation. You will buy all the innovation we have because we have such a great track record of innovation as reflected above. Innovation is Microsoft’s middle name, innovation, innovation, innovation.
Did I mention that really, we want to sell to corporations who are about 2 years behind the innovative technology users and we’ll get consumers to buy because most of them are blithering idiots?
iPOD MINI RULES!!
NEWS FLASH!!
iPOD Nano being returned in record numbers due to excessive wear from a case material that is TOO SOFT to stand up to normal use! (SCRATCHES!)
Film at 11 and…
YOU READ IT FIRST HERE!
We would have given the iPod a 10 but it doesn’t have built in FM radio and it doesn’t play WMA’s.
jadisone-
haha, the seminoles…you make me laugh. talk to me when u find a quarterback on your roster.
As for iTunes and iTMS?
Serious credit here from CNET. It’s GREAT to see that by producing
a product that the market calls for (and I’m talking mass Market) that
we can get some notoriety for appealing to not only the market…but
the critics also.
iPods have been building a world within themselves…buy one and take
a look see. <=>|<=>
CT ======]—————- Conquest of Demands
Yes, evidently Cnet does do these Top 10 list frequently (perhaps an annual event?) For those looking for Netscape, click on this link below:
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6252746-1.html?tag=bottom
MDN MW= light
as in, I’m so glad Cnet finally sees the light!
I can vouch for the ultimate iPod scratch fixer — Brasso! My new iPod was very scratched after one day, my wife got so angry, but during the night, an hour with some Brasso and a cotton tshirt — it was brand new again. She never figured it out!
MDN MW – “Answer” as in, there it is.
“Microsoft has a whole PIPELINE of innovation”
MS is confusing pipelines with sewers.
Enough said.
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iPod’s with FM radios crybabies, will you just shut TF up?
FM radio just plain s*cks, if your that cheap go buy a tiny FM radio and velcro it to your iPod nano for christsake.
iTMS is appealing to artists to sell their music online, to do that you
1: Don’t support renting their music.
2: Don’t support giving it away for free.
Another thing is Microsoft, Apple is trying to flood the world with AAC format to counter the WMA (DRM) domination.
Remember how the lack of WMA (DRM) support was thought to be a major stumbling block to the success of the iPod? Not a problem anymore right? Especially with 2 million songs per day being sold online.
The iPod is a portable music player, not a device to be dependant upon content from the local radio staions/RIAA. It has it’s own content that one decides to place on it. Not what is decided for them like a FM radio.
If you want FM content, buy a FM radio.
beauty to open source/free enterprise/networking/shoplifting…
“I crammed tons of products into 1 neat little package” — iPod
CT =====]————- Amigos—Am eagles—A.M. sounds crisp—You heard it from the Top down [Cash still Rules]
Did anybody else read the ars/technica article in which they threw an iPod Nano out of a car window while driving 50 miles per hour, and the iPod (although scratched up badly) worked fine afterwards?
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
Those things are TOUGH.