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03/08/2004, 1:35pm, EST

Monday, March 8th

A look at the companies behind Apple's iPod

Electronic Design Chain last summer published an in-depth look at the iPod and the companies with which Apple has partnered to design and manufacture the MP3 player, including Sony, Wolfson, Toshiba, Texas Instruments and Linear Technology: "It turns out that much of the underlying iPod design was performed by outside companies. The Cupertino folk haven't given up on their heritage of design excellence—they're just bowing to some inevitable directions in consumer electronics by borrowing from established experts linked together for what may be the first design chain for the iPod." Meanwhile, BBC News reports that Digital players in general and the iPod in particular are having a dramatic effect on the way people behave.


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03/08, 2:03pm, EST
I'm just RIPE to have an ipod change the way I behave. Now only if I could afford one.
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You are jusr RIPE
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03/08, 2:12pm, EST
...to post stupid comments like that. Grow up!
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03/08, 2:35pm, EST
Apple is just RIPE to outsource to 10-15 companies.
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03/08, 2:43pm, EST
I'm just RIPE enough to buy an iPod
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I wonder...
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03/08, 2:44pm, EST
...if people were surprised to learn that Apple outsourced a portion (or more) of the iPod. If so, they shouldn't have been...Apple isn't in the hardware fabbing biz.
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I wonder how
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03/08, 3:03pm, EST
much he was paid to come up with the headphone trick. I already figured out if you want to be left alone/look like you are busy, just put on a pair of head phones. They don't even have to be plugged in. Someone has to really want to talk to you for them to put in more effort than calling out your name. Some social psychologist.
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not shocking at all
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03/08, 3:04pm, EST
it's nice to know, but nothing new. If Apple were to develop all the different technologies in house, it would've been impractical.
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Reinventing...
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03/08, 3:10pm, EST
..the wheel is a dumb idea. Using existing technology to it's best, that's smart business.
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03/08, 3:12pm, EST

Ripe is RIPE to ripe ripe.
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03/08, 3:12pm, EST
"...iPod in particular are having a dramatic effect on the way people behave."

Like never looking up as they walk thru a store listening to their ipod - lost in their on world?


Mike, its too hot in here! Get on the telephone!
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