| The Apple iPod from Apple Inc. is a portable media | | | | AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audio book, and Apple |
| player that assures the users of perfect musical | | | | Lossless audio file formats ensuring the perfect |
| entertainment. The iPod was a result of Apple's | | | | musical entertainment. The iPod is generally associated |
| research which resulted in the disclosure of the fact | | | | with a host computer. Each time the iPod is connected |
| that the existing digital music players are "big and | | | | to the host computer, iTunes are able to synchronise |
| clunky or small and useless" with user interfaces that | | | | entire music libraries or music playlists either |
| were "unbelievably awful". Apple developed the | | | | automatically or manually. Song ratings can be set on |
| product in less than a year and unveiled it on October | | | | the iPod and synchronised later to the iTunes library, |
| 23, 2001. | | | | and vice versa. It is also possible for the user to |
| The name iPod was the contribution of Vinnie Chieco, | | | | connect the iPod to a second computer. Apple iPods |
| a freelance copywriter, who was called by Apple to | | | | generally function as mass storage devices to store |
| figure out how to introduce the new player to the | | | | data files. When the iPod is formatted on a Mac OS X |
| public. The first iPod kiosks were demonstrated to the | | | | computer, it uses the HFS+ file system format, which |
| public in New Jersey in March 1998, and the | | | | allows it to serve as a book disk for a Mac computer. |
| commercial use of it began in January 2000. The | | | | The sound can be enhanced with the iPod's software |
| trademark was registered by the USPTO in | | | | equaliser (EQ) which has some EQ settings like R&B, |
| November 2003, and Grasso assigned it to Apple | | | | Rock, Acoustic, indie, and Bass Booster which can |
| Computer, Inc. in 2005. | | | | result in fast bass distortion. |
| The Apple iPod can play MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected | | | | |