In 2009, Apple experimented with an iPod built for mobile gaming with a second Click Wheel used for control inputs.

[kormachameleon@tech.lgbt]

@michi i would DJ on this

[symtrkl@anarres.family]

@michi The engineer said "we added another button" and Jobs just unhinged his jaw and devoured the guy whole.

[felipe@social.treehouse.systems]

@glitchy404 @michi exactly

[dennmans@waag.social]

@michi a bad workman blames his tools. Jobs should have practiced with the similarly discontinued Gameboy D, with double D-pads, but snobbism towards Nintendo withheld him.

[jnazario@infosec.exchange]

@KormaChameleon @michi IKR?! that's what I thought it was, a mini virtual turntable deck with an LCD fader.

[michi@wetdry.world]

@jnazario @KormaChameleon DJ Hero came out that year, so this could have been the perfect mobile device to play it on.

[darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io]

@michi

All these competent Apple designers that Meta could have hired.

[taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@michi @NanoRaptor iPod DJ!

[finitebaffle@mas.to]

@michi “click wheel drift” omg the pain is real

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@michi a second @NanoRaptor has hit the timeline