The beginning
On October 23, 2001, Apple released the first iPod. It seemed, after less than a year of development and was Apple's answer to that is a gap in the market seen as a personal digital. Up to this point, digital music players were too large to be practical or too small to function properly. Apple has changed the situation during the night with a 5GB unit of modest size, to 1,000 for a song instead.
The first iPod was white with a monochrome screen.User navigates with a mechanical scroll wheel and center button. Other features include a FireWire port, instead of a USB port and a battery has a charge for about ten hours of music playback.
The iPod has its tracks immediately. Although it is only compatible with Mac computers, has been used for the user Windows software from third-party work around this problem. It was clear that Apple could bridge the gap in the market that the company had identified to fill.
iTunes
iTunesIn 2001, in January, nine months before the first iPod. ITunes was part of Apple's iLife software and allows users to view the content of their Mac transferred to CDs, organize and play music via their computers. The arrival of the iPod with iTunes 2.0, has meant that all can now go one step further and copy music from computer to mobile devices.
Since iTunes 2.0, Apple introduced iTunes updated regularly. The iTunes Storeentered service in April 2003, six months later, iTunes 4.1 made iTunes compatible with Windows. Other developments include access to music videos, podcasts, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, games and applications. Cover Flow, Apple has these improvements with features such as CD covers and complete genius last year.
Technology
The first iPod music stored on a hard drive, half the iPod classic remains to this day. IPodMini (January 2004 - September 2005) was a micro-inch drive capacity 4GB or 6GB either. The iPod nano, shuffle, touch and always had flash.
color screens in 2004 after the fourth-generation iPod, the iPod also known as the photo in October. By June the following year, sank all the iPod screen in black and white and had color screens. This has developed in the two-inch, two and a half inch further, and threehalf inch screens that are now part of the nano, classic, touch, and in any case.
iPod controls began with the mechanical scroll wheel. A touch-sensitive wheel, and then the click wheel, follow this. The third generation iPod, but in 2003 combines a horizontal wheel with four buttons below the screen in April. Apple changed the layout just a touch wheel, in July 2004.
Significant deviation fromWheel arrangement appears on the touch. Published in September 2007, the iPod touch has a multi-touch screen that users and tap your fingers outside of the control functions' s iPod
The Click Wheel remains as one of the features of iPod nano and iPod classic range. The iPod Shuffle, released in January 2005, has five buttons available in the form of aCircle.
IPod connectivity has changed. First, Apple has been the exclusive use of FireWire, the contents of the original iPod. In April 2003, with the advent of third generation iPod, Apple has provided USB connectivity for the first time. In September 2005, all models of iPod, USB only. This step confirms that the leading iPod portable music players, and reflects the need to connect to all computers.
Storage Capacity
Apple has begun The series of iPod 5 GB of space. Within six months, a 10 GB model released in 2002, followed by a second generation iPod 20GB in July. Capacity reached its peak in September 2007, the 160 GB model of the sixth generation iPod (the classic), but has since fallen. The highest capacity, with the potential cure to 30,000 songs or 150 hours of video on a 1.8-inch hard disk, the current iPod classic 120GB.
The last> IPod shuffle 1GB and 2GB offers options for 240 or 500 songs. The Nano has 8GB and 16GB iPod touch and offers a choice of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. IPod owners also have the opportunity to store digital media in their iTunes libraries.
Windows
Windows users who bought the first generation iPod had iTunes to download XPlay software as they are not. To ease this problem, Apple has two versions of the second generationiPod in October 2002. One came with iTunes for Mac owners, the other had Musicmatch Jukebox for Windows users.
In October 2003, Apple launched iTunes for Windows, and since then all iPods were suitable for Mac and Windows users. Today, iPods are not using iTunes: The software is available to anyone as a free download.
Video
One of the most significant increase was the introduction of the video iPod. This was done with the fifth-generation iPodOctober 2005. Initially in 30GB and 60GB versions of the fifth generation is thinner than its predecessor and with a larger screen.
Battery backup for video playback was two hours for the 30GB model, and three hours for 60 GB. This jumped to six and a half hours, but with the arrival of the fifth generation 80GB upgrade in September 2006.
The video playback is now a standard feature on iPod classic, touch andnano.
Sales
iPods are the most popular type of digital music player in the world. Its market share exceeds 70% and a turnover of EUR 160 million exceeded. Apple has sold about a quarter of that figure over the last year.
Driving those sales is the desire never ceases to Apple for the improvement and innovation. The latest models are perfect examples of this approach and provide the best, which is now on the market of digital music player.
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