8 Years of the iPod

Sorry I am a little late, but I just found this out.  Today, 10/23/09 mark 8 years since the first iPod was released.  Think about that.  Apple has developed from making a clunky 5GB revolutionary music device, to super thin devices that have touch capabilities and can do anything you can imagine.  I am not going to give a whole history, as I cannot remember and am sorry that I do not have to time to research i tall right now, but I will give what I can recall.  So we started at the First ever iPod, which no one had ever known of such a device.  It was revolutionary and genius and changed the music market forever.  It devolped over the years going through multiple generations, from the 2nd gen, to the colorful minis.  But then came the next revolution.  The first unbelievably thin device.  The iPod Nano.  The memorable day Steve Jobs stepped onto that stage, and before he left, described that use for the small pocket on your jeans with the iPod Nano.  That alone has developed from a 1GB device with a small screen to now having a large screen, with an accelerometer and a VIDEO CAMERA.  They aslo created the iPod classic, continuing from the first iPods.   These devices were remarkable in they can hold huge amounts of data, such as 120GB.  Enough for DJ's music library.  They also even ventured to make the affordable iPod, the iPod Shuffle, which is impossibly small.  This device has even gone through a lot, from the long bar to this little thing that looks like a magnet, and it can hold 4GB of your songs.  But perhaps the most remarkable innovation is the iPod Touch and iPhone.  These devices have huge 3.5" screens with touch capabilities, and you can do just about anything on them.  And they have plenty of future potential.  So this is my history of the iPod.  From a big thing with a black and white screen to the iPod Touch.  Consider the mass improvements.  Let the iPod live on.

Update on Oct 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM by

Has it really been 8 years of the iPod. And according to the 'Cult of iPod' book* if the iPod didn't existed Sony who be the market leader in digital music. 

Comments

[Lloyd]

iPod changed the music industry forever. Great post. Didnt know it was the iPod's birth day today.

[Philip]

It's doomed, though.

[David (thecreativeone)]

@Phillip, it's doomed?