The year 2003 will go down in history as the year in which the PC merged incontrovertibly with consumer electronics, causing PC makers to scramble to enter these exciting new markets. Today, computing giants such as Apple Computer, Dell, Gateway, and HP offer a wide variety of portable electronics, online music services, and other consumer-oriented goods alongside the PCs, servers, printers, and other business products they've offered all along. And thanks largely to the success of Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store, these huge corporations are reaching out to the ranks of people eager to snap up cheap, legal digital music.
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