After celebrating its 20th birthday in 2021, iPod said goodbye to its fans a year later, when Apple announced the end of production of its legendary device in May. On this day in 2001. Steve Jobs he went on stage and took out a device from his pocket that would revolutionize the way we listened to music until then.
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The original iPod from 2001 could store 1,000 songs in it, completely digital, thanks to the partnership between Apple and Toshiba, which took care of the then unimaginable five gigabytes of hard disk space.
Reduced piracy and brought music within reach
The first iPod was the size of a deck of cards, and was recognizable by its physical scroll wheel. The five gigabyte model cost $399, and the ability to store music at your fingertips was complemented by the arrival of the iTunes digital music store in 2003, which reduced piracy for a while.
Namely, you didn’t have to buy the whole album on iTunes, butć you could have each song individually for 99 cents, which eventually led to Apple holding 70 percent of the legal digital song market in 2007.
His fame was taken over by the iPhone
Between 2003 and 2007, which is called the golden age of the iPod, more improved models were released, but with the arrival of the first iPhone in 2007, all the iPod’s quality transferred to a slightly larger smartphone, and today also to all other Apple products – from iPhone via Apple Watch and HomePod.
– Music has always been key at Apple, bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way that the iPod did it influenced not only the music industry, but changed the definition of how we discover, listen and share music today. The spirit of the iPod continues to live on – said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Marketing in May when he announced the end of iPod production.
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