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I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget
I remember the birth of the iPod, 25 years ago this month. I was working at Newsweek.
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The author recalls the iPod’s debut 25 years earlier on October 23, shortly after the September 11 attacks, while working at Newsweek. He notes he did not attend the Cupertino launch where Steve Jobs demonstrated the device by pulling it from his jeans pocket and claiming it held an entire music library.
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