When was the iPod Invented
By: Want To Know It
The Apple iPod is the best selling portable media player in history. As of January 2008, over 140 million iPods have been sold. Apple iTunes is used to transfer music and other programs onto iPods and millions of songs, movies, television shows and video games are bought by people through iTunes everyday. But when was the iPod invented? This article will answer that exact question, and also look at six cool facts about iPods.
When was the iPod Invented
In late 2000, Apple wanted to tap into the market of digital devices that were being purchased by consumers. They knew that digital cameras and camcorders were very competitive businesses and they would be unlikely to crack the market. However, Apple realized that digital music players were very large and difficult to easily carry around. Apple decided they could easily improve upon the music players and decided to develop their own. It took less than a year to develop the iPod, which were unveiled on the 23rd of October, 2001. The iPod was marketed as a product that put 1000 songs in your pocket. While sales were quite slow in 2002 and 2003, the iPod increased in popularity rapidly during 2004, 2005 and 2006. Today, over 40% of the profits Apple makes come from iPod sales. So now you now when then iPods was invented. Now let’s look at six interesting facts about iPods.
Six Facts about iPods
Fact 1: The iPod shuffle was the first screenless iPod.
Fact 2: iPods are often used to train nurses and other college (university) students.
Fact 3: iPods have been critically acclaimed for being easy to use, their clean design and their innovation
Fact 4: Most songs sell for US$0.99 on Apple iTunes (price is different in each country).
Fact 5: The iPod has been criticized for forcing people to use iTunes to buy songs, although you can also put songs on your iPod from eMusic and Amie Street.
Fact 6: Originally, iPods only worked with Macs. This is probably why the iPod failed to sell well in its first two years.
18 Comments for When was the iPod Invented
1. anna ramirez | December 11th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
cool info of the i-pods.
2. ashley | February 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
you don’t have to buy songs on itunes. you can buy them on amazon, or you can download music from limewire and put the songs on the ipod that way.
3. DaNeisha | April 8th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
The ipod is a great audible player! Especially the ipod touch! Bill Gates can you keep up?! lol
4. kenisha bliss | April 22nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
i hate ipods. i like zunes
5. Triple M | August 25th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
i need this article 4 tech. ed. thxn
6. leighanna | September 2nd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
thax i really needed this
7. volcom boy | September 17th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
im mad mine got stolen
8. SheBreia | October 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
i LUV dha ipod touch!!!!!!!!! THANKZ
9. Maddyy | November 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thank the good Lord for music!
10. BOB | December 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 am
THE IPOD IS SO COOL MAN!
11. Selinn xx | January 12th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
who invented the ipod??
12. Want to know it | January 15th, 2010 at 12:10 am
iPod was invented by a team of people working for Apple. Jon Rubinstein was the head of the team. Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey were members of the team. Jonathan Ive was the design engineer.
13. antonia | January 21st, 2010 at 3:10 pm
thnx needed info for project
14. kaila | February 17th, 2010 at 7:25 am
when was the iPod touch invented and who invented that??
15. Want to know it | February 17th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
That info is difficult to find! From the sources I’ve seen, Lachlan Kelly invented the iPod Touch sometime in 2005. However, it wasn’t released until September 5, 2007.
16. katrina | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:12 am
this artifact is great even better it has alot of facts i need for my report score1 not that i will cheat=) im good without cheating!
17. lilly | March 10th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
this article is awesome i luv it it is so much better then all the other articles i have tried 2 look for and i would say this is 1 of the best
18. kaitlynn | March 10th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I luv most of the ipods apple has created but shouldn’t everyone
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