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A Brief History Of iPod

iPod is a digital mp3 / mp4 playerand Skip Backwards/ Fast Reverse. An
developed and marketed by Apple Inc., anadditional Hold button is provided for
American consumer electronicsaccidental button pressing prevention,
multinational corporation. During theirand it can reset the iPod if it has
research, Apple found that in comparisonfrozen or crashed. Functions such as
to available camcorders, digitalvolume control, scrolling are handled by
cameras, and organizers; digital musicthe usage of the rotational click wheel.
players recorded poor sales, primarilyLater models have some minor changes in
due to their awful user interfaces.the functions of the buttons but overall
Apple wanted to do something about itthe number of buttons has remained at
and so Jon Rubinstein, Apple's hardwarefive.
engineering chief brought together aTo market this path-breaking mp3 / mp4
team comprising of Tony Fadell (whoplayer, they needed a suitable
dreamed of a hard disk based musicfuturistic name and so they hired a
player), Michael Dhuey (hardwarefreelance copywriter, Vinnie Chieco, and
engineer), Jonathan Ive (designother writers to give a name. Inspired
engineer), and Stan Ng (marketingby the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and
manager). In less than a year, theythe dialogue "Open the pod bay door,
designed a hard disk based music player,Hal!" with reference to the context of
that had a 5 GB hard drive and capablethe Discovery One spaceship and its
of storing 1000 songs.white EVA Pods, Vinnie Chieco proposed
Apple's iTunes software is utilized tothe name of the product as iPod. The
operate the iPod (m3 / mp4 player). Themanagement of Apple accepted the
software is compatible with all Macproposed name and on 23 October 2001,
systems. The operating system is storedthe iPod was officially launched. The
on its hard disk. A boot loader programrest they say is history.
is contained in a NOR flash ROM chipTo enable customers to access songs of
(either 1 MB or 512 KB) which instructstheir choice, Apple opened up an online
the device to load the operating systemmedia store The iTunes Store on 29 April
from the hard disk. The iPod has a 322003, where individual songs could be
MB of RAM, a portion of which is used todownloaded at prices less than a U.S.
hold the operating system from firmware,dollar per song. The purchased songs
and the rest is used to cache songs fromcan be played only on iPods. Subsequent
the hard disk. Apple also invented aversions of this iPod (mp3 / mp4 player)
technology whereby the hard disk of iPodalso featured video capabilities, and
could spin up once and about 30 MB ofthus iTunes Store started selling short
upcoming songs could be cached into thevideos from 12 October 2005. From 12
RAM. This did not require the hard diskSeptember 2006, full-length movies were
to spin up for every song and therebyalso available at the iTunes Store.iPods
saved battery power. Apple alsohave come a long way from their
introduced a Windows version of iPod, atinception, and now the latest fifth
a later stage.generation iPods possess multimedia
The audio files that iPod (mp3 / mp4capabilities and are available in both
player) supports are MP3, AAC/M4A,Mac OS and Windows OS versions.
Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, AudibleUsually, if a new iPod is plugged into a
audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio fileMac OS computer, then the hard disk of
formats. MIDI and WMA files can bethis mp3 / mp4 player is formatted as
played only after a convertorper the HFS+ file format, and if it
accomplishes conversion, for non-Digitalplugged into a Windows OS computer, it
Rights Management (DRM). Ogg Vorbis,is formatted as per the FAT32 file
FLAC, and other open-source audioformat. From being a digital music
formats are not supported at all.player, the iPod has now transformed
Apple wanted an extremely user friendlyinto a digital media player.
interface and thus adopted theRoberto Sedycias IT Consultant
minimalist interface, which featuresThis article is under GNU FDL license
only five essential buttons, namely,and can be distributed without any
Menu (to access functions and to toggleprevious authorization from the author.
the backlight); Center (for menu itemHowever the author´s name and all the
selection); Play/ Pause (this also worksURL´s (links) mentioned in the article
as an off switch when held for fewand biography must be kept.
seconds); Skip Forward/ Fast Forward;



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