The year is 2001, the portable electronics industry is booming, and the CD player is the hottest personal musical device around. Little did they know that the music world was about to be rocked to its core by a quiet computer company that’s set on changing everything. Enter the iPod, a compact and durable device capable of holding the entire contents of most peoples CD collections. With a price tag of £300, it was scooped up by affluent music enthusiasts to compile their entire collection into one place. For the first time in music history it was possible to have any song you wanted available at a touch of a button. In a master stroke, iTunes was released in January of the same year, and the music industry scooped up the opportunity to provide songs on a piece meal basis. With these two powerful tools, the iPod was set to change the world. History has shown that Apple’s ambitions were both met and exceeded. History of iPod Day iPod Day celebrates the events described above, and has been a recognition of the ambitions of its founder Steve Jobs and the company the he helped rise from modest computing company to an international electronics powerhouse. The first iPod was sold on November 10th, 2001, and the world has never been the same. Have you still got one? Apple haters need not reply
I've got 3 of the 160gb variety, the first one we found when we were walking the dogs, the other 2 were presents from the eldest unmarried daughter. They're all full.
I have the 160gb too. I'm still getting around to fill it....its very good though , my last purchase was Donovan's Retrospective.
I'm not celebrating iPod day today, I'll wait for the slightly improved version that's bound to come along shortly
The iPod is the hifi equivalent of the T5......Mention you have one and folk will immediately start banging on about how much better vinyl is, and it's only 4 bolts to take a turntable off yadda yadda yadda....
You're wrong, you get a much superior sound from an Edison Phonograph wax cylinder. We entertain many friends with ours.
I really liked my 80GB Ipod then I updated Itunes and it won't Sync anymore, several updates since haven't fixed it,common problem. So its just cassettes now as vinyl is a bit bulky. The kids were excited to hear that cassettes are making a comeback, "you can get new music now daddy".
Haven't got an original one for some reason - still got an iPod though ,the 160gb Classic - scratched to hell , dodgy display but still got all my music on it - nowhere near 169gb - does anyone have anywhere near that required??
And again Apple rewrite history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player They had to buy the guy who actually invented one in 1981. ok fanbois, back to your group hug now. And my involvement with that history - Philips Digital Compact Cassette - quite crap MP2 recording on tape. I did some design work on this, simulated one of the chips. And Philips tried in the 1990's to develop a thing like a MicroDrive which had a tiny 1" diameter ancestor of a Blu-Ray writable laser disc with MP2 files and a 1GB capacity, which was bigger than the flash players of the time. Even mobile phones could play MP3's before the iPod. No iPod then ...
