Perhaps he reads The Register
From your article on Psion published in June last year:
"Psion were being approached by many startups who realised the brand value Psion could bring to a new area," recalls Hughes. "Before one had even appeared on the market, we were approached by a company that had an MP3 player that was Flash-based. It held only half an hour's worth of music, but we saw how that could evolve into a large market."
Tupman recalls devising a hard-disk based player around this time.
"Ken and I spent a number of months just driving around the country trying to pull together a plan to make hard disk drive MP3 player," he says. "Creative had their big CD-sized player with 2.5in drive, and there were lots of little Rio players; we thought we could make a play in that area because we had the technology. It was very much an investigation."
In October 2001, with Tupman now at Apple, the iPod was launched. In 2003, its sales exploded.
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