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THE STORY BEHIND THE MAKING OF iPod

When the company of Apple began creating its software for the market of digital services, iPod came into existence from Apple’s digital hub category. When the company explored the market, they came to know that the market for the digital music players was quite big and clunky or small and useless with awful use interfaces.

This make the company takes a decision of creating the iPods. This product was developed in less than a year with a 5GB hard drive that could accommodate 1000 songs. It is true that Apple did not design the whole product them self and used Portable Player’s platform based on the 2ARM cores that had rudimentary software that ran on a commercial microkernel embedded OS. Portable Player had already been working on the Mp3 player with Bluetooth headphones with Apple contracting another company called Pixo that helped them to design and implement the user interface. Apple refined the look and feel of their software.

NAMING OF THE APPLE iPod

The name, iPod was created by a freelance copywriter called by Apple to figure out how to publicize the product, he , seeing the product thought of the song form a movie “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” which meant the white EVA pods of the discovery one spaceship. This was initially a trademark for a US patent but soon was assigned to Apple Computers.

FEATURES OF THE iPod

The iPod has many features including anti-aliased graphics and text, sliding animations, five buttons and the buttons integrated into a click wheel which perform the function of playing or changing to the next track, scrolling through the menu, controlling the volume etc.

It has also launched an iPod touch which uses a touch screen and no buttons.

All the iPods have the audio codecs except for the shuffle and 6G.

The sixth generation iPods use the Cirrus Logic audio codec chip.

The iPod Classic from the first to the sixth generation have 45.7mm hard drives from Toshiba.

iPod Mini has 25.4mm Micro drive by Hitachi and Seagate.

iPod Nano has a flash memory from Samsung, Toshiba and many others.

iPod touch and Nano too have a flash memory.

iPod Classic, first and second generation, Nano and Shuffle have an Internal Lithium

Polymer batteries whereas the iPod Classic, third to sixth generation use the Internal Lithium-ion Polymer batteries.

CONNECTIVITY OF iPods

The iPod comes with 2 wall chargers with its fireball and USB connectors that allow it to charge even without a computer. The fire wire connector was initially used to update the songs or to recharge the battery which could be done with the power adapter in the first four generations. A30 pin dock connector was introduced in the third generation iPods so

That they could be connected to many accessories from TV to speaker systems.

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