• Timeline of Apple iPod

    Timeline of Apple iPod

    Prasad Naik, Sep 05, 2010 1145 hrs IST

    The evolution of the world's best-selling music player

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2001



The one that started it all, the first generation iPod was launched on October 23, 2001. The first generation iPod had a design that isn't far from the current iPod classic. The original iPod had a 5 GB hard disk which could store up to 1000 songs. The iPod had the revolutionary Click Wheel, which really was a physically rotating wheel back then with the playback buttons placed around the circumference of the wheel.



The original iPod had a 160 x 128 pixel monochrome LCD display. The iPod used the Firewire interface to connect with the computer, which was much faster than the USB 1.1 interface available back then. And speaking of computer, the first generation iPod only worked with a Mac and Windows users were out of luck. The iPod was launched at a price of $399 (approx. Rs. 19,000) and was available in the distinctive white color, with matching white earbuds.


 

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(7) Comments
Sid
,thane, on Sep 05, 2010 10:56 PM
as the famous ipods gets newer and modern, i personaly feel that the quality of music which ipod used to provide to the customer, is slowly reducing.Earlier ipods were famous for their excellent sound producing capabilities, but nowadays i think apple is concentrating more on making their devices modern and multifunctional and hence loosing the most important feature( ie:sound ) of a mp3 player.
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Rohan
,TechTree, on Sep 06, 2010 09:39 AM
Couldn't agree more!
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sachin
,goa, on Sep 05, 2010 08:21 PM
i guess next ipod versions will have bigger screens with full HD recording capability.
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Rotanguli
,Blr, on Sep 05, 2010 04:47 PM
Nice article Mr.Prasad. Never knew monochrome iPods existed! Was a good recap. The word verification is so annoying.
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dude
,kochi, on Sep 05, 2010 01:14 PM
pg.6- "In July that year, the iPod and the iPod photo got merged into one product and the monochrome display finally was put to rest on the iPod. The new colour screened iPod was now available in 320 GB and 40 GB models.'' There's a typo there... must be 30 gigs-not 320....
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Prasad Naik
,Mumbai, on Sep 05, 2010 04:45 PM
Thanks for the heads-up. Fixed.
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karthi
,chennai, on Sep 05, 2010 04:07 PM
excellent article :) nostalgic.
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