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Story: Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?

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Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 20 January 2004, 7:27 AM)

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This is the reason why Apple, while garnering a similar flurry of excitement with its ipod product, will never manage the huge mega-success of a Sony. The walkman was a cultural phenomenon. The ipod is its successor in the new networked world. Walkmans became ubiquitous and Sony along with others made a fortune in walkman products ranging from $20-$200. Apple may just want to be the "rich man's toy supplier" but if it can't recognize a market need and suck it dry for all its worth, it's doomed to repeat its past failures.

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