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Kane Kramer applied for a UK patent for his design of a plastic music box in 1981 which hhe called X8 he was unable to secure funding to renew the US$ 120,000 worldwide patent, so it lapsed and Kramer never profited from his idea.
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there are four current versions of the ipod ipod shuffel, ipod nano, ipod touch, ipod classic. Ipods can serve as external data storage device.
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HP stoped selling ipods due to unfavorable terms and condition imposed by Apple
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The ipod was produced by about 14,000 workers in the US.and 27,000 overseas
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The brithish tabliod reported that ipods are mainley manufacted by workers who who earn no more then US $50 per month and work for 15 hour shifts.
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apple reported recordquartely revenure of US$7.1 billion, of which 48% of it was made from ipod sales.
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During a lawsuit with patient holding companey burst.com, apple drew attention to a patient similar device that was devoloped in 1997
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there was another man who killed himself when an Apple protype went missing, and claimed in messeges to a friend, that he had been beaten and interrogated.
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a number of workers commited suicide at a foxconn operation in China
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Apple reported that total number of ipods were sold worldwide was 350 million
