History of the iPod

And who haven't heard of iPod iPhone, touchscreen iPod Touch and Apple's iTunes? Since the start of the millennium, the young generation of users have made it their in-thing. The iPod is Apple's. The company designed, marketed and launched it sometime end of year 2001.

History of the iPod

Here's a brief biography of the iPod and its product-lines. Designed by Apple, Inc., iPod is a portable media player (PMP) for storing and playing audio files encoded by MP3 or AAC compression algorithms. It can hold anywhere from a few hundred to ten thousand of songs, perhaps more. Selling by millions, it has surpassed mere popularity worldwide.


Apple Digital Devices

Apple, Inc. began looking at the range of digital devices since they had missed competing on video and still cameras, and hand-held organizers. As they have produced software for storing and playing digital music, they also realized the players of the digital music were not user-friendly.


MP3 players of the time were disappointing, flash memory chips had limited tracks hard drives were too big to store music on. Aside from difficulty in navigating the player menus, the process for transferring songs from computer to players was slow.

The story goes that a computer engineer, Tony Fadell, had an idea for a new style of MP3 player, which could be linked to its own digital music store. He promoted his idea to some manufacturers, one of them, Apple, Inc.

(Image is Apple's iPod Shufle.)



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