Models

The Apple currently commercializes four models of iPod:
iPod Classic (80 GB and 160 GB) - With more shining colorful screens, more durable batteries, Cover Flow and greater memoria capacity; this iPod is the successor of generation 5,5, disponivel only in the colors black and gray silverplated.
iPod nano (4 GB and 8 GB) - Now with capacity to reproduce videos in a lesser screen that of iPod Classic, to cover flow and still more fine that the old nanos [ 2G ], are disponiveis in the colors: Silverplated (4GB) and Silverplated, Green, Blue, Pink, Black and Vermelho (8GB).
iPod touch (8 GB and 16 GB) - It contains the same resources of iPhone (touch screem, access wireless, etc) but without telephone. Disponiveis only in black color.
iPod shuffle (1 GB) - the minor of the tocadores. Available in the colors silver, purple, green, red (PRODUCT)RED and cyan.
Already it had some versions since that the original model of iPod was launched, leading to the existence of 6 distinct generations. As in the majority of the devices based on hard disk, the available space of fact for musics, photos and storage of data accurately are not the same indicated. This if must to the fact of that the announced capacity uses metric and not binary prefixes. For example, one iPod mini of 4 GB possesss in the truth 3,77 GB of usable storage.

History

Tony Fadell had the first Idea is of the Apple: it had difficulties in finding investors MP3 to player it that he had projected. When it demonstrated it for the Apple, the company contracted it to bring its project to the life, being placed it as head of the teams who had developed the two first generations of the device. The group of design industrial of the Apple projectou the other more recent versions, under the command of Jonathan Ive.
The name iPod was considered by Vinnie Chieco, an advertising executive who with other friends had been contracted by the Apple, in order to introduce the new to player to the public. After seeing the archetype, it it thought about film 2001: A Odisséia in the Space and the phrase "Open the door pod bay, Hal" (something as, "opens the door of the ship"), that it is mentioned to white ship EVA Pods of Discovery 1. The Apple already had registered the name iPod for InterNet kiosks, but never it placed in practical.
Already in October of 2004, iPod dominated vendas of players digital of music in the United States, with more than 92% of the market for players with hard disk and more than 65% of the market of all types of player. iPod had a very great growth in vendas, more than vendendo ten million units in a total of three years. The device comes having significant a cultural impact with this taking of the market. Moreover, research suggests that iPod served as a bridge for the purchase of other products of the Apple on the part of PC users, as the purchase of Macintosh computers (this fenómeno is called effect halo).

Ipod an invention more than invention

The name Ipod mentions a series to it of players of audio digital projected and vendidos by the Apple Inc.. ( the also vendia Hewlett-Packard the product until little time behind under the name of Apple iPod + HP). The devices of the family iPod offer a simple interface for the user, centered in the use of a clicável wheel, or click wheel. The greater of the models of ipod stores media in a hard disk connected, while the lesser models, ipod shuffle and ipod Nano, uses memory flash. As the majority of players portable digital, ipod can serve as a storing one of data when connected to a computer. It is considered until today the launching riskiest of the Apple, therefore it was launched in October of 2001, when the United States still were under strong commotion, had to the attempted against ones of 11 of September.