Of course. I did some video editing in those days. I wasn’t suggesting the iPod invented the concept of scrubbing wheels (or jog dials, as we would have called them back then). However the iPod’s specific implementation for scrubbing digital audio files with a mechanical wheel is literally exactly what Teenage Engineering is claiming innovation on.
The iPod’s implementation was interesting because it was entirely skeuomorphic. It faked a physical experience that used to exist for a practical reason. The jog dials in video editing were electromechanically modifying the tape reel’s velocity. It was implemented that way not just for UX reasons, but because it was kinda the only practical way to implement it. Thus it was really interesting when the iPod went back to this idea and “faked” it, essentially. Turns out it was a good UX all along.
