IPOD

IPOD

iPod is a brand range of digital media player devices that are designed and sold by Apple Computer (Hewlett-Packard also had a chance to sell these products with the name Apple iPod + HP). The name "iPod" is also used to be a variant of one digital media player in the circuit (this variant is now called the "iPod classic"). Most of the variants of the iPod provides a user interface (user interface) is simple to use design in the form of wheel (scroll wheel). iPod classic storing data on a hard drive, while other models use flash memory. Like most other music player device, the iPod can be used as an external hard drive when connected to a computer.

Tony Fadell was first inspired to make the iPod out of Apple Computer: when he had difficulty finding funding to pay for the music player device he created. [Citation needed] At the time he showed it to Apple Computer, the company hired him as an independent contractor for resulted from this project. He was given the responsibility to raise the team will develop the first two generations of this device. After the development of the next iPod conducted under the auspices of Jonathan Ive who is the head of industrial design group at Apple Computer.

Until October 2004, the iPod dominates the music player device sales in the United States, to reach 92% of the market the device's hard drive and more than 65% of the market other types. iPod has successfully sold rapidly, exceeding ten million units in the last three years. The device has a cultural impact on society is very large when compared with the tool was first launched.