(Stuff Magazine) The story 2005 was the year that digital music went properly mainstream, with download sales eclipsing CD singles and MP3 players becoming the year’s must-have gadget following 2004’s iPod-white Christmas. While rivals played catch-up, Apple stole the budget market with the Shuffle, offering a gigabyte of music for less than £100 and illustrating the awesome power of the Apple marketing machine: who’d have believed we could be conviced that the lack of an LCD display was a unique selling point? Read more