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May 01, 2007
Blast from the Past: Apple Introduces "Easier to Use" portable music
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October 2001. Apple introduces a new portable music player that it declares is much easier to use. So much easier, in fact, that it may "broaden a nascent market in the way the Macintosh once helped make the personal computer accessible to a more general audience". This new device is called iPod. The New York Times article that describes the iPod is pessimistic. The iPod-buying market would probably be limited to the 7 million existing owners of Apple Macintosh computers since no Windows support was provided at the time. And the new iPod might support piracy, although CEO Steve Jobs assured the music industry that steps would be taken to prevent songs from being transfered from the device to other computers. The 2001 iPod's 5GB hard drive was large enough to store 1000 songs. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
From Blast from the Past: Apple Introduces "Easier to Use" portable music
Posted by John at May 1, 2007 11:58 AM
