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Looking Back at Apple’s No-Button Music Player
With the 2008 iPod Shuffle, the company which made touch screens mainstream tried to get rid of on-device controls.
Yuri Litvinenko
Yuri is 30pin’s owner and editor. He also works as a web news editor at Vedomosti, a Russian business daily, and appeared on Atlas Obscura, Tedium and Nintendo Life.
Preserving the Impact of Compact Disc Publications
Digital archivists are saving cultural works stuck on computer CDs. How are they doing that—and whom?
Wii Was a Celebration of TV’s Visual Culture
Nintendo’s mid-2000s motion control sensation was inspired by television in more ways than it might have seemed.
History of Logitech’s Now-Discontinued Harmony Remotes
In light of Logitech’s decision to stop making universal remotes, here’s a brief look at 20 years of their Harmony line.
Windows’ Little Brother, Bearer of Microsoft’s Grand Ambitions
From handheld devices to car stereos, Windows CE was supposed to power everything but the PC. But its identity was seen as a threat to Windows proper.
How Basic Touch Phones Stood Opposite the iPhone
The first Apple phone wasn’t a smartphone per se, so why other ones had to be? Some devices displayed unique ideas of a good user experience—and one handset still does.
PC’s Short and Awkward Quest for Media Center Dominance
If you were a computer, how would you drive out a piece of A/V equipment out of the home? In 1990s, the idea was to turn your case black.
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