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What really killed Winamp had nothing to do with Apple making better software. This video traces the full commercial story behind the rise and collapse of the media player that dominated digital audio in the early internet era, from its origins as a free download built by a teenager in Arizona to its acquisition by AOL, its slow starvation through the merger years, and the two structural assumptions that failed simultaneously and ended it for good.
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