South Korean software corporation Cowon was so early to market with a portable MP3 player (2000’s CW100), it got in on the boom in portable digital audio not so much on the ground floor as in the basement.

A year later, Apple delivered its first iPod, and suddenly the whole notion of portable MP3 players became legitimised for the mainstream.
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