/data/photo/2022/05/11/627b0b4c93ad6.jpg "Watching Apple iPod Over Time After Official Retirement")
KOMPAS.com – Apple announced that its music player device, namely iPod series, retired. iPod Touch which is the last generation iPod is declared over, because Apple no longer produces the device.
Through the company’s official website, Apple said the iPod Touch will be available “while supplies last”. This also marks the end of the iPod brand as one of the company’s products that has existed for two decades.
The music player made by Apple made its debut in 2001. Its long existence cannot be separated from Apple’s role in developing the iPod, starting from the design that originally had a button to a touch screen, to its increasingly sophisticated features.
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To make it clearer how Apple developed its music player, let’s take a look at the iPod from time to time.
iPod 2001
Apple founder Steve Jobs commissioned Apple’s then VP of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive and a group of the company’s hardware engineers to create the iconic music player. The result, created the 5GB iPod which was launched on October 23, 2001 which can accommodate up to 1,000 songs.
The name iPod itself comes from a freelance copywriter who at that time remembered the phrase in the film A Space Odyssey, namely “Open the pod bay door, Hal!”
That first iPod weighed just 6.5 ounces and was just as thick as a deck of cards. The device is equipped with a round main button and four additional buttons for navigating songs. But at that time this iPod could only be used for Mac users to transfer songs.
iPod 2002
The second generation iPod was launched by Apple on July 17, 2002, only 9 months after the first iPod. The innovation added to the iPod gen-2 is support for Windows computer users.
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Thus, Windows users can use the iPod and transfer songs using software called Musicmatch Jukebox.
In addition, the iPod, which was released in 2002, also offers a larger storage capacity of up to 10 GB. That same year, Apple launched a similar iPod, but with a larger storage option of up to 20 GB.
From its design, the iPod gen-2 is like the first iPod. But the sensitivity of the button is improved. In addition, this device is also equipped with a program that users can use to store up to 1,000 contacts.
iPod 2003
The third generation iPod was launched on April 28, 2003 with an increasingly enlarged capacity. Initially, the iPod gen-3 was only available in 10 GB, 15 GB and 30 GB capacities. Five months later, Apple added storage options of 20 GB and 40 GB which can accommodate up to 10,000 songs.
This year Apple also stopped the Musicmatch application after iTunes 4.1 was released for Windows OS. In addition, Apple launched the iTunes Store on April 29 with 10 million songs sold in just the first four months.
About the features, the iPod gen-3 is the first of the iPod series that offers a smoother sliding interface. In addition, the button is also made flat so it looks slimmer.
iPod mini to iPod gen -4 – 2004
By January 2004, Apple had sold more than 2 million iPods and made the iPod the number one digital music player in the world, as summarized below. KompasTekno from PCMagThursday (12/5/2022).
Throughout 2004, Apple introduced three variants of the iPod, consisting of the iPod Photo (30 GB, 40 GB and 60 GB), the iPod gen-4 (20 GB and 60 GB) and the iPod mini 4 GB.
iPod mini itself comes in five colors, namely blue, pink, silver, green and gold. This device is also equipped with buttons that are more compact than the previous generation, because the song navigation buttons are no longer separate, but side by side with other buttons.
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