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Apple admit Briton did invent iPod, but he's still not getting any money
- noonespecial 18y agoThe article didn't say. Was there ever even a prototype or was this just a 60,000 pound worldwide-wide empire of patents based on that little sketch? Wouldn't they have all expired anyway by the time the Ipod hit the market? (even with extensions) I drew magical music players that could hold all my tunes when I was 12 too. I even tried to make one with the innards of a vhs tape, reel to reel heads and an MC6800 microcontroller. Locating a specific spot on a big ribbon of tape is damn hard with only 128 bytes of ram...
- Dobbs 18y agoIt stated in the article that there was infact a prototype it just could only play 3.5 mins of music.
- noonespecial 18y agoHis invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve. His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music tracks – very similar to the iPod. This seems to me that if there had been a prototype, it would have stored only 3.5 minutes on the chips available at the time, but there wasn't. Only sketches. The thing he has in the picture there is most certainly not a 1979 prototype.