“It looks like a great product,” he said.

Then he paused a second. Something didn’t compute.

“It’s only for Macintosh?” he asked.

What did Bill Gates say when he first saw the iPod?

Did Apple engineers use foam core and old fishing weights to craft a model of new MP3 player?

Steven Levy of Wired.com, gives a movie-esque narration of the events that led to the emergence of the iPod, with a pre-titles Bill Gates intro scene. Here is the complete article.

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