Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPod? A hoax?


	Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPod? A hoax?

jamesgrimes

9-10-2008 2:50 PM

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jamesgrimes says:

A British citizen, Kane Kramer, now lays claim to the invention; he claims he did so back in 1979.

In reading the pdf document, it seems like something feasible only with the internet, which was only available en mass since the early 1990s (so his central server idea holds no water with me).

I am calling this a hoax.

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