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Happy Seventh Birthday, iPod
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Thursday, October 23, 2008
News Category: iPod
Seven years ago today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the original 5GB iPod, a $399 hard drive-based MP3 player with a unique Scroll Wheel and bright white LCD interface, an amazingly pocketable size, and high-speed FireWire for synchronization and charging. The first-generation iPod actually shipped on November 10, 2001, going on to sell 125,000 units by year’s end.
Apple now has sold more than 174 million iPods, spanning five distinct models—iPod/iPod classic, iPod mini, iPod shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod touch, and has seen countless advancements in capacity and features, even while falling in price. It has also played a major part in Apple’s remarkable growth from a struggling computer company to a major consumer electronics manufacturer, inspiring the iPhone and helping boost sales of the company’s Mac computers.
From all of us at iLounge to Apple’s iPod teams, past and present, congratulations on your seventh birthday. We will be here to celebrate many, many more.
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Wow, it’s been that long already? Haven’t owned a nano, shuffle, or mini. Only the 1G/2G/Video/Touch/3G Phone.
Which reminds me, I think I want to get my 1G fixed. It’s sitting on my desk as a paperweight. A very lovely one though.
Posted by werd12 on October 23, 2008 at 12:44 PM (PDT)
2
Wow, who’d of thought that we’d still be here, iPod junkies after all these years. Happy B’day iPod!
Posted by Alicia on October 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM (PDT)
3
Happy birthday Ipod you made Apple cool to the masses and changed the music industry forever. Not bad for seven years worth of work.
Posted by Johnathan on October 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM (PDT)
4
My wife got me a 1G for Christmas 2001.
Which was great except my iMac didn’t have FireWire!
Good excuse to get a G4 tower though…
Posted by tzed on October 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM (PDT)
5
woow,.. congrats
Posted by dennis on October 24, 2008 at 4:21 AM (PDT)