CmdrTaco / Rob Malda criticized it famously, but it appears the comments were pretty supportive.[1]

[1] http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...

To be fair, Slashdot bashed the iPod (2001), not the iPod + iTunes w/ Store (2003).

I think that's a pretty big difference.