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by tfh 6124 days ago

  > There would likely be no iPod and no iPhone.
Why there would be no iPod? AFAIK it's not Steve Jobs who came with the idea.
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No, Jobs didn't invent digital audio players, nor did anyone else at Apple. But Jobs decided to pursue it as a business. The story -- apocryphal or no -- is that Jobs named Apple Computer after the Beatles' label, Apple Records. He has always been a music fanatic. It is unlikely that with anyone else at the helm Apple would have driven as hard or as far into the music business.