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Business Regrets? They’ve Had a Few

Apple Tunes In

n the late 1990s, as mp3 players were beginning to bloom, an engineer named Tony Fadell had an idea for a line of digital music players. Fadell had worked for big consumer electronics firms, but had been kicking around Silicon Valley for a decade trying to develop his own devices, with limited success. He took his player to one of the digital music leaders at the time, RealNetworks, which was selling music

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