23.10.2010 19:35 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Happy 9th birthday, iPod!

Wow. It seems like just yesterday that we were all looking at Apple's new baby for the first time. No, I'm not talking about the new MacBook Air, but the device that seems to have jump-started Apple's meteoric climb to success. The iPod was first launched on October 23, 2001 and begat a family of highly-popular portable media players that continues to this day. The first model was a Mac-compatible device with a 5 GB hard drive and a capacity that put, in the words of Steve Jobs, "1000 songs in your pocket." Since then, we've seen iPods as tiny as the third-generation iPod shuffle and as large as the 160 GB, sixth-generation iPod Classic. The iPod touch has become a huge success as a web-surfing, game-playing, picture-taking "iPhone without the phone." The name iPod was first proposed to App

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