Apple and Steve Jobs presented 21 years ago the device that changed its history and gave the company a new dimension.
Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of the launch of one of the most important devices in the history of Apple, perhaps the most important that the Californian company has presented. This device not only made Apple reach more users, it also changed the mindset of the companywhich stopped being a computer company to start becoming the company we know today.
21 years ago, Apple introduced its first iPod model. A device that allowed you to have 1,000 songs in your pocket and that it had a very important importance in the history, both of music and of Apple itself. In 2022, 21 years later, the era of the iPod has ended after Apple’s decision to stop selling the last of the available models.
Apple released the first iPod 21 years ago
On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs appeared on the Town Hall stage at 4 Infinite Loop in Cupertino and unveiled the first iPod. At that time, neither the users nor the industry appreciated the importance of this launch, few understood that a computer company would launch an mp3 player.
However, we are probably before the most important device in the history of Apple. Even above the iPhone. The iPod changed the company by making it reach many more users. And, in addition, popularized the online store iTunes Store. A very important experience for Apple and for the iPhone and the App Store.
The iPod made Apple a universal company. The company stopped being a computer company to be a device companylaid the foundation for the Apple we all know.
The original iPod was the first portable consumer device Apple introduced after Steve Jobs’ return to the company, an affordable device that allowed many to enter the Apple ecosystem for the first time. The the iPod laid the foundation for the iPhonethe true device that revolutionized the history of Apple.
And we must not forget that this 2022 has been an important year for the Apple player, after 21 years on the market, the definitive end of the iPod has occurred. A few months ago Apple decided to stop selling the last surviving iPod in its catalog, the iPod touch. So we no longer have any iPods for sale.