“In the not-too-distant future when compact discs are museum pieces and vinyl records are near fossils, 2003 will be remembered as the year digital music stepped into the mainstream.
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Mark Mulligan, an analyst with Jupiter Research, said: “A lot of the important building blocks have now been put into place.
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Effectively a device for storing music files, the iPod helped kickstart a rush to move music from the compact disc to the portable hard disc drive.