Submitted by Igor Faletski on November 20, 2006 - 12:20am.
The iPod. It wasn’t the first MP3 player out there… But it quickly turned out to be the best. A combination of ingenious design, successful marketing and great complimentary software made this little gadget a Holy Grail of electronics. Everyone, from Sony to Microsoft tried to introduce their own solutions, often portrayed as definite “iPod killers”. Yet, the iPod still outsells any other portable music device by a large margin. At first glance, it seems that nothing (not even Microsoft’s Zune) can threaten is dominance… But there’s one major factor. Cell phones.
