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Dude, he invented the friggin' iPod. Have you heard of it?

by Robert Palmer (Sep 8th, 2008)

Meet Kane Kramer. In 1979, he filed a patent for a device called the IXI, an early digital device that held about three minutes of music. He let the patent lapse a decade later, and never saw a penny from Apple's blistering success with the iPod. You might think this was a story of a bitter man with ...

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