The iPod marked a change for Apple. It was the product that transformed it from the floundering tech company into the trendy giant it is today. But this story behind it’s creation is filled with a mix of pressure, personal loss, luck and talent.
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The original iPod still works with iTunes.
You missed a major component – Jobs’ negotiations with the major record labels to sell their songs at a fixed price.
The iPod is emblematic of everything that was ever right & wrong with Apple. They created the perfect product and the perfect market at the perfect time. Then in classic corporate ADD fashion they released criminally bad updates to the software that was fueling their miracle, iTunes, quietly realized they couldn’t code worth it damn anymore and didn’t feel like trying, so they threw it all away in the name of branding themselves too cool to stick with any market, no matter how lucrative it was or how many faithful would become alienated in the process. It was stunning arrogance manifest. To this day I’m still rebuilding my iTunes library after the latest version dumped 3/4’s of it into two folders marked “unknown artist” and “compilations” because reasons.
i dont know if i am the only gen alpha kid that is using an ipod mini, like you dont have to pay for no ads and internet, and it is cheaply moddable…
I truly believe that the iPod was the most magical, most hype about product Apple has ever made. Back in tie days, we were SO used to using single purpose devices, we never even thought of connceting it into one device. I always come back to those days when I just sit on the bus and enjoy a 2-3 hor drive listening to an album or a compilation. You never know how much I loved the iPod and how much I was willing to invest into an ecosystem around it. The docks, the cables, the headphones… EVERY|THING had to have the matching color and the sound. Thanks to the iPod I dicovered the audio companies like Bowers & Wilkins and Sennheiser. Unfortunately, the times changed and we now need the internet connection to consume media. But there is SO much about turning all the social media off, shut yourself and enjoy only your favourite music in its full glory without all the interrruption, feeling the hard drive spinning inside, interracting with the device, enjoying the design of it and think of a single man that brought this happiness to our lives -Steve Jobs. It was a magical era of Apple aura which will never ever come back.