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0:00: 🔑 The original iPod was designed and manufactured in a few months and credited to an obscure man named Ken Kramer.
3:12: 🎵 The rise of digital music and the MP3 format disrupted the music industry, leading to the development of portable MP3 players.
6:31: 💽 Apple developed the iPod with a small form factor and high capacity hard drive, using the iconic mechanical scroll wheel for easy navigation.
9:29: 💽 The iPod was developed by a team led by Fidel, using components from various companies. It had a minimalist design and became a status symbol.
12:41: 🎵 Apple's iPod revolutionized the music industry, selling over 400 million units and paving the way for the iPhone.
Recap by Tam
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Never owned one of these, but remember when MP3s were getting lots of attention. In the late 90s one person in my circle took some old PC parts and a DC to AC inverter and ran an old DOS machine in the trunk of his car. Every time the car powered up, the PC would boot up and the autoexec.bat would start MP3 playing. I think he had a 10GB or more of HDD. Long before the iPhone I had a flip phone with a micrSD card slot that played MP3s and had dual speaker as well as a headphone jack. It also had a camera and limited apps. I could get to my bank account in text on a very small screen.
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Sidebar, Apple computers had to get permission at the beginning to use the Apple name, at that time already owned by Apple Music formed by the Beatles. They were given permission on the condition that they never go into the music business. When they started iTunes, they had to negotiate again for their name, they could have potentially lost the use of the name Apple as a result.
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i remember sony, samsung and other companies making great mp3 players with drag and drop music folders that were cheap, had good storage ability for large playlists and had a great sound quality, but were a pain in the ass to use sometimes if you were already sucked into the apple ecosystem and didnt own a pc which was more suited to the (not always essential) software involved in said devices
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I REALLY ABSOLUTELY miss that anticipation of what they were going to do with the next iPod!! My first one was the 30GB iPod Video for Christmas 2005!!! I felt like the man because not a lot of people had that new iPod at the time! Now days with Apple Music, Apple ruined the way iTunes would allow you to customize your playlists individually instead of just syncing all of it like now. I absolutely hate that they did this to the playlist feature. Sometimes my artwork doesn’t show on one device and sometimes my playlists get duplicated and this infuriates me because they could have just easily made Apple Music for only Music and playlists like iTunes and moved the iPhone updaters to finder. I know they could have kept the playlist features the same. If it aint broke don’t fix it!! This time they broke it instead of fixing it!! I understand why they had to separate the iTunes store but I hate that Apple Music and Finder are required to keep my iPod running with music and playlists and I refuse to keep a separate mac just for iTunes of old!! 😑
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Still got a 4rd gen iPod (2004) that works - black/white LCD screen and mechanical hard drive. Great machine and quite good audio quality, especially for the time.
Good to hear the development story all in one spot. Now if only Apple could continue to innovate like this instead of taking away features we actually use like 3.5mm audio jacks...
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@JavierCR25
8 months ago
Those of us who remember the Walkman, the discman, the mini disc, the MP3 players and then the iPod, truly understand the impact it made.
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