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So we should sue him if there is a problem with our iPod? Why spread the misery around?
tsk tsk...what could’ve been. You can now group him alongside Gary Kildall, who SHOULD;VE been a billionaire by now, if he just said no to Bill Gates and Ballmer when he sold them the forefather of what is now called Windows OS.
I’ve had my iPod for 3 1/2 years and haven’t had one problem.
They could have AT LEAST given the poor guy an iPod for his trouble!
Something doesn’t smell right here.
In 1979, the technology for an iPod didn’t exist, or was still in the laboratory stage. Memory chips, LCD screens and the iPod touch dial was still 10 years away.
An iPod is an iPod because of its small size. A (much larger) desktop ‘Apple II’ machine and video games of the time may have had the capability for rudementary MIDI files, but in 1979 a ‘Sound Card’ didn’t exist. And battery technology was nothing like today’s.
He took out a worldwide patent and set up a company to develop the idea.But in 1988, after a boardroom split, he was unable to raise the £60,000 needed to renew patents across 120 countries and the technology became public property.
So, 13 years before Apple released the iPod, Kramer's "invention," which he never built, did the engineering on, or even prove the viability of, passed into the public domain.
His "IXI" would only store 3.5 minutes of music... if it had been built. Concept wise, it was great. Practical? Not in 1979 or 1988. An invention that can't work should never have been granted a patent.
Am I the only one around here that remembers the Diamond Rio MP3 players?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(digital_audio_players)
Jeesh. How many billable hours could’ve been saved if Apple’s attorneys had a bit of domain memory?