| Noticing a growing market for mobile MP3 players, | | | | attempting to appeal to a younger market, being the |
| Apple released the original iPod in late 2001, and it was | | | | first to come in different color, and it was much smaller |
| quickly destined to be a huge success. It was exactly | | | | than the original iPod. It didn't have as large of a |
| what people wanted.. It had a simple interface, it had a | | | | capacity as the original, but it was still large enough to |
| large storage capacity, and it was extremely attractive | | | | hold a lot of songs. iPod Nano - Apple retired the Mini, |
| and recognizable. It was only compatible with the | | | | and came out with the Nano, which was even smaller |
| Apple Macintosh though, which extremely limited their | | | | than the Mini, at about a quarter of an inch thick. The |
| sales possibilities.The iPod did end up driving up Apple | | | | nano has exploded onto the market with it's extremely |
| Macintosh sales though, since a small percentage of | | | | small size, and has capacities of 1, 2, and 4 gigabytes. |
| people actually migrated over to the Macintosh | | | | iPod Video - This was a replacement for the basic |
| computer just so they could use an Ipod. It wasn't | | | | iPod, and the most recent addition to the iPod family of |
| enough to drive sales of the iPod up though, Apple | | | | products. the iPod Video not only plays songs like the |
| needed a bigger market, they needed the Windows | | | | original, but plays video files as well, and they bumped |
| market, which was (and still is) much larger than the | | | | up the capacity to 30 and 60 gigabytes. iPod Shuffle - |
| Macintosh market.In 2003 Apple released a new iPod | | | | The iPod Shuffle is Apples first attempt at the flash |
| that came with iTunes, which was compatible with | | | | drive market, since all of their other products have |
| both Macintosh and Windows systems. This was | | | | spinning hard drives. The shuffle replaces the user |
| when the real explosion of sales occurred, since so | | | | interface with just a few buttons, and prides itself on |
| many more people could use them with the Windows | | | | the "shuffle" feature, after it's name. It is the smallest of |
| platform.The iPod Keys to Success Simple Interface - | | | | the iPod line, at about the size of a usb memory stick, |
| The Apple iPod has an extremely simple interface, | | | | and has capacities of 512 megabytes and 1 gigabyte, |
| needing only a few seconds of use to be able to | | | | appealing to those that don't need much space and |
| master it. Large capacity - The current regular ipod | | | | want something extremely small.The iPod has created |
| has a 30 or 60 gigabyte storage capacity, which 30 | | | | a whole slew of other markets as well, from audio |
| gigabytes equals about 6000 songs. Even the smaller | | | | companies implementing ipod connectivity support in |
| versions have a larger than normal capacity. It's visually | | | | car radios, clothes companies creating ipod pockets, |
| attractive - They made it look very sexy, appealing to | | | | and other third party companies creating tons of ipod |
| just about everyone, and is now extremely | | | | accessories, like carrying cases, protective sleeves, |
| recognizable. Windows and Mac compatibility - When | | | | docking stations, the list goes on and on.It's no wonder |
| they crossed over to the windows market, they more | | | | why the iPod dominates the market, with Apple's |
| than tripled their market, literally reaching anyone that | | | | ingenious marketing strategies, great features, and |
| owned a computerThese are the things that really | | | | appealing looks of their products, the iPod is destined |
| make the Apple iPod dominate the mobile MP3 player | | | | to dominate the MP3 player market for some |
| market, reaching over 70% of the market share. Apple | | | | time.------------------------------- |
| never simply wanted to dominate the market with one | | | | This article taken from Computer Discounts Guide - |
| product though, they're still releasing new products at | | | | Apple iPod Guide. View the website for more helpful |
| an alarming rate, each of which are doing extremely | | | | guides. |
| well. iPod Mini - This was Apple's first iPod spinoff, | | | | |