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In 1997, the world's first MP3 player, the MP Man F10, was developed by a South Korean company Saehan Information Systems. -
. It consisted of a 3GB IBM 2.5" hard drive that was housed in a trunk-mounted enclosure connected to the car's radio system. -
during the Christmas season as sales significantly exceeded expectations, spurring interest and investment in digital music. -
MP3s transformed music distribution, creating industry winners and losers, But some questioned if we were sacrificing quality for convenience
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MP3s made it easy to purchase songs individually and cheaply, mp3s are Portable devices that let listeners carry entire collections with them.
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online inventories grew, and brick-and-mortar stores began to vanish, along with the industry’s traditional business model
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few people were on the Internet with a fast enough connection at the time, no one had an MP3 player, and there was nowhere convenient to download an MP3 player -
The company's first MP3-supporting Walkman player did not come until 2004.
