Quick Hit: iPod & Kim Jong II
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It’s quite a testament to a consumer good’s popularity when it used as a tool in an international tit-for-tat. That’s the position that Apple’s iPod found itself last week when the US banned their export to North Korea. Is the new iPod shuffle worth exchanging a nuclear bomb for? We shall see…
In related news: Retailers, left with disturbing number of brown Zunes on their hands this holiday season, are excited. There might actually be a market for Microsoft’s maligned music player.







