Why the iPod would never have been a hit in the 80’s

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief September 27, 2007 · 1 min read

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Not that people in the 80’s were not that hip or anything. It’s just that…

… it would be really hard to carry the thing around.

Picture of 1GB IBM disk 20 years ago, next to a 1GB SD card.

On a related note, TUAW reports that Apple sends a takedown notice to an ISP so they could prevent the guy from uploading codes that could hack the iPod Touch. Mathew Ingram is perplexed why people aren’t outraged with Apple for this move. Oh, the Evil New Empire.

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Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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