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Apple's iPod Digital Music Player in High Demand.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003
By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 25--It's Christmas at last -- so you're probably reclining in digital contentment under the tree, snuggling with your shiny new iPod.
No?
Join the club. In Silicon Valley and around the globe, gadget lovers who hoped to get one today are learning that Apple Computer's diminutive music players are in short supply. Many area electronics stores said they had sold all but the most expensive models -- which prompted some desperate shoppers to spend $500 for the high-end iPod, rather than do without.
The scarcity of the iPod, a smooth, white, digital music player about the size of a computer mouse, affirms its status as the It-Thing, the tech...
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