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Apple Hopes Music Lovers Will Embrace New Portable Audio Player.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2001
By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 25--Soon after Apple Computer announced its $400 iPod MP3 player on Tuesday, one of my buddies from high school instant messaged me from Chicago.
My friend Kasima Tharnpipitchai is a Mac fan. He's such a big Mac fan that in his spare time, he wrote code that allows the Samsung Uproar MP3 phone to connect to Apple's new OS X operating system. By many measures that makes him a bigger geek than I am.
Kasima: hey jon, how was it in person?
Jon: coolio ... and they handed me one ... listening to it now ... very nice
Kasima: really? awesome.
Jon: how're things?
Kasima: good good. just wondering how the ipod is breakthrough...
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