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Originally Posted by Phogg
What Apple brought was not new concepts, groundbreaking hardware, or better pricing. Apple brought a massive preestablished customer base and a monolithic public relations hype machine.
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That's not quite right. The iPod is rightly considered iconic; there were MP3 players before it, but none like it. And there was no massive pre-established customer base - the iPod didn't sell in any appreciable numbers until Apple made it available for purchase to
Windows users.