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The evolution of iPods

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On October 23, 2001, Apple launched the first href = "Http://www.considermac.com/ipod"> iPod. Apparently, after less than a year of development, and it was Apple's answer to what he saw as a hole in the personal digital market. At this point, digital music players were too large to be practical or too small to function properly. Apple has changed that overnight a 5GB device of modest size that held 1,000 songs.

The first iPod was white with a monochrome screen. User to navigate with a mechanical scroll wheel and middle button. Other features include a FireWire port, instead of a USB connection and a battery held a charge for about ten hours of music playback.

The iPod made its mark on the ground. Although it was only compatible with computers Mac, Windows users use third party software to circumvent the problem. It is clear that Apple could fill a gap in the market that the company had identified.

iTunes

iTunes is available since January 2001, nine months before the first iPod. iTunes is Apple's iLife software, and allowed users to transfer the contents of the CD in your Mac, organize and play music on your computer. The arrival of the iPod, iTunes 2.0, it means that everyone can now go there and copy music from their laptops to the players.

Since iTunes 2.0, Apple introduced iTunes updates regularly. The iTunes Store has entered into service in April 2003 and six months later, iTunes 1.4 iTunes is compatible with Windows. Other developments include access to music videos, podcasts, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, games and applications. Apple has supplemented these enhancements features such as album artwork, Cover Flow, and, more recently, Genius.

Technology

The first iPod music stored on a hard hard, half as iPod Classic is used to date. iPod mini (January 2004 to September 2005) was one-inch Microdrive 4 GB or 6 GB or capacity. The iPod nano, shuffle and touch had always flash.

Color screens are achieved with the fourth-generation iPod, also known as the iPod photo, in October 2004. From June next year, all iPod displays decreased in black and white and color shown. These developed both thumbs half past two and three-inch screens and an inch and a half, now part of the nano, classic, touch and, respectively.

IPod controls began with the mechanical scroll wheel. A touch wheel and click wheel, then that. The third generation iPod, however, a wheel combined with four buttons below the screen horizontally from April 2003. Apple has changed this provision to a single wheel touch in July 2004.

Output the readiness of the larger wheel appears on the iPod touch. Launched in September 2007, the iPod touch has a multi-touch screen that users play and manage their fingers to control iPod functions.

Click the wheel is still, however, ranks as one of the distinctive iPod nano and iPod classic. The iPod shuffle, published for the first time in January 2005, has a five button arrangement in the form of a circle.

Connectivity for iPod has also changed. For starters, Apple has the exclusive use of FireWire, original connection with the iPod. In April 2003, with the advent of the third generation of iPod, Apple has integrated USB connectivity for the first time. In September 2005, all models of iPod is now USB only. This decision confirms that the first portable music player iPod, and reflects the need to link all computers.

Storage Capacity

Apple has begun range iPod with 5GB of storage. In six months, a 10 GB model appeared, followed by a second generation 20 GB iPod in July 2002. The storage capacity has reached its peak in September 2007 with 160 models of the sixth generation iPod (the "classic"), although this has been abandoned. The large capacity, with the possibility of holding 30,000 songs or 150 hours of video on its 1.8-inch HDD, 120 GB iPod classic is the current.

The latest offering of the iPod shuffle 1 GB and 2 GB of options for 240 or 500 songs. The nano has 8GB and 16GB and iPod touch offer a selection of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB y. IPod users also have the ability to store digital media in your iTunes library.

Windows

Windows users who bought the first generation iPod was to get as XPlay software because they could not download iTunes. To alleviate this problem, Apple has released two versions of the second generation iPod in October 2002. An entry with iTunes for Mac owners, the other had Musicmatch Jukebox for Windows users.

In October 2003, Apple launched iTunes for Windows and since all iPods have been adapted for Mac and Windows. Today, iPods no longer come with iTunes: The software download is available at all free.

Video

One of the biggest boosts to the iPod was the introduction of video. This comes with the fifth-generation iPod in October 2005. Initially available in 30 GB and 60 GB versions, the fifth generation was thinner than its predecessor and with a screen larger.

battery support for video playback is two hours for the 30GB model, and three hours for the 60GB. This proportion was increased to six and a half, however, with the arrival of the update of the Fifth Generation 80 GB in September 2006.

Reproduction video is now a standard feature on the classic iPod touch and nano.

Sale

iPods are the most popular digital music player in the world. Its market share is above 70% and total sales exceeded $ 160 million. Apple has sold nearly a quarter of that in the past year.

Driving sales is Apple's infinite desire to improve and innovate. The latest models are perfect examples of this approach and represent the best that is available in the market for digital music players.

About the Author

Ben T Wilson writes about Apple products.

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