Ten years with musical companion
Digital music player Apple iPod has celebrated its tenth anniversary.
It was this first model, with which Apple began its transition to the production of electronics for consumers.
For these ten years, the company that was engaged in computer technology, has become a great producer.
The creation of iPod has not just laid foundation to a new product line. Due its popularity, in 2003, music e-shop iTunes Store appeared.
During eight years of existence of this server, visitors have downloaded 16 billion songs.
It had 5 GB hard drive. It went on sale two weeks after the presentation, and cost $ 399 in the USA.
It had a monochrome display. Menu was controlled by a mechanical wheel.
In following models, the mechanical spinning wheel was replaced with a touch one.
Among the disadvantages of the first player by Apple there was a way of connection to computers.
They were connected via FireWire-port.
This connection was used by Mac computers, and very rarely by Windows.
This disadvantage was eliminated only in the third model in 2003, when support for USB was introduced.
The emergence of Apple iPod has led to the birth of online store iTunes Store or cheap songs downloaded from the server iTunes Store could be listened to only on iPod.