Happy Seventh Birthday, iPod

[Bellamy]

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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I still have one of the original 5GB iPod. And it's still working.

 

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[Black Kitten]

aww HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY iPod!

[LuisMa]

Nice! When it came out, I said I probably would never get it, but now there are some days when I can't get enough of my iPod.

[Petra5]

[Meryl Isabel]

Happy Happy Birthday IPOD!!!!!

More Birthday to comes

[CelineAndRene]

HAPPY B DAY

[Edwin]

I my iPod

[whineupemily]

First Ipod EVER:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2a9v135.jpg

Newest Ipod released:

Actually this isnt, this is the Ipod Touch 1st Generation, the new Ipod Touch has SPEAKER .. haha

http://i36.tinypic.com/122kozr.jpg

 

My has the look changed ..

Both of them look so high-tech! i have to say; i own the touch screen one and it has broke 3 times, im not pleased

Edited October 25, 2008 at 01:28 AM by whineupemily

[Bellamy]

How did you break it 3 times? Smashed the screen?

[Prince Whiskers]

They say that you're only supposed to listen to your iPod for a maximum of one hour a day and below 60% of the maximum volume to avoid hearing problems in the future.

 

One crazy suggestion: insert the earbuds in your nostrils and plug your ears with something else. This supposedly creates a "voice in the head" effect and you can crank up the volume without risking abuse to the ears.