Reinvent Retail | Simple, usable tools for independent retailers. » Music News http://www.reinventretail.com We build simple, usable tools for independent retailers. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:29:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPod in 1979 http://www.reinventretail.com/2009/07/ipod-in-1979/ http://www.reinventretail.com/2009/07/ipod-in-1979/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:21:28 +0000 Tyler http://www.reinventretail.com/?p=134 Kramer’s device, the IXI, was flash-based, even though flash memory in 1979 only could have held about three minutes of audio, and featured a screen, four-way controls, and was about the size of a cigarette pack. Even weirder, he envisioned the creation and sale of digital music and foresaw all the good and bad that would come from this: No overhead, no inventory, but a great push for independent artists, with the risk of piracy looming large.

via Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979 – kane kramer – Gizmodo.

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