17 years since the birth of 'iPod', will iPods that have not appeared for a long time have the end as it is?

On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs who was CEO of Apple at the time announced the original iPod of digital audio player at Apple Town Hall in Cupertino California. Since then, 17 years have passed, iPod has evolved into various products such as iPhone and iPad.

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The original iPod announced by Jobs in October 2001 has three innovative functions of Apple traditional ease of use, portability as a digital audio player, and "Auto-Sync" of automatic synchronization function with iTunes It was. In addition, it was only 20% of the size of commercially available hard disk type music player at the time, yet it was a remarkably superior audio player with a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and capable of continuous playing for up to 10 hours.

The original iPod has a 5 GB 1.8 inch hard drive, and it was possible to store as many as 1000 songs in it. At the time of the announcement, it was advertised extensively that "1000 songs can be carried in your pocket", it was sold for 399 dollars in the US and 47,800 yen for the tax in Japan. The following movie is the CM of the iPod that flowed in the event when Jobs released the first iPod.

First iPod Commercial - 1000 Songs In Your Pocket - YouTube


The original iPad is equipped with a monochrome LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and Click Wheel, which adopted a simple and intuitive scroll interface, so you can quickly scroll through songs with hundreds of songs, It was designed to be easy to locate.

This click wheel, which was adopted from the original iPod, has remained as one of the features of the iPod series for a long time since then, and it is also adopted in the last iPod classic that appeared in 2009. In addition, iPod classic was discontinued in September 2014.

In addition, on the forum operated by Mac Rumors reporting Apple-related news, the user's response remains when the first iPod appeared in 2001. Looking at the reaction, "I wanted something else ..." or "I still can not believe this! I wonder who was playing the hype for such stupid things! Who cares about MP3 players? From a critical voice like "Are you wonderful?" "I am happy with $ 399! Looking through the Apple Store for a while!" Other MP3 players do not have a 5 GB hard drive. It's at most 64MB if it's something of ", and varies from people who delight in the appearance of the iPod.

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Since the first iPod appeared, Apple announces a new version of the iPod every year. Among them, the new iPod series was born as a color iPod " iPod Photo " and a small iPod " iPod mini " that appeared in 2004, a display smaller than " iPod nano " smaller than iPod mini in 2005 " IPod shuffle " whose terminal size became dramatically compact has appeared, and in 2007 the 3rd generation iPod nano transformed from a conventional model to a wide-ranging design and " iPod touch " equipped with a touch display appeared .

After that, " iPhone " announced in 2007 same as 3rd generation iPod nano and iPod touch gained popularity, the demand of iPod gradually became smaller. In the iPhone series, the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max appear in 2018 and the iPhone XR is scheduled to appear on October 26, 2018, and its popularity does not know about a decline.

The iPhone XR features colorful variations like the iPod series.

Meanwhile, in 2014, the manufacture of iPod classic which was the successor model of the first iPod ended . Production of iPod nano and iPod shuffle is also closed in 2017, and as of 2018 the product name "iPod" is attached to the 6 th generation iPod touch only.

However, since this 6th generation iPod touch has not been updated since 2015, it does not matter when it will disappear from the Apple Store product lineup. Nevertheless, the 6 th generation iPod touch firmly responds to the latest version of iOS 12 released in 2018.

At the time of article creation, there is no new model of iPod or iPod touch, such as rumors, but the 6th generation iPod touch is available for purchase from the Apple Store with a price of 21,800 yen for the 32 GB model and a price of 32,800 yen for the 128 GB model.

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