Apple: The Prosperity Of And Change Brought About By The IPod
When the first iPod was introduced in 2001, it created a change within the music industry. The idea behind the iPod was basic: provide individuals with an item in which they can save all their favorite music, making carrying digital libraries simple. Apple made it possible for individuals to keep an iPod instead of those big CD carrying cases that kept all a user’s music and created a large inconvenience for storing music. The iPod did to CDs what the cassette player did to the record player: give a better electronic to hold and hear music. Apple’s prosperity with the iPod helped introduce an age of newer devices, new accessories, such as the iPod Classic cases, and even innovative features that changed the entire MP3 indutstry.
iPod Mini
After the triumph of the original iPod, two more iPod generations followed with the well known classic white design and each with click wheel, but the iPod mini changed the color scheme and the price of the product. Individuals who were once on the fence about the price, color or size of the original iPod now had more selections to pick from. The success of the iPod Mini can be attributed to the fact that it kept many of the same characteristics of its older brothers, retaining the same click wheel and menu options while producing new colors, size and (the best part) a new price range.
iPod Video
Before the iPod Video came into existence, Apple built the iPod Mini, iPod fourth generation and iPod Photo. The iPod Video built on the success of the iPod Photo and allowed users the opportunity to set photos and videos on the item using popular media programs, such as iPhoto. With the iPod Video, users could place digital movies onto their electronics, as well as music videos and home movies that could be altered on their laptops. Maybe one of the most important alterations that the iPod Video brought about was the redeisgn of the iTunes store that allowed individuals to not only purchase music from the store, but also videos and movies.
iPhone
Had Apple never experienced prosperity with the iPod, the iPhone would never have been created. Before the success of the iPhone ever came about, the MotoRocker served a major part in modifying how Apple made phones, as the MotoRocker was built by Motorola but loaded with Apple’s operating system. The Rocker was a failure, but a necessary one because Apple understand that in order to be successful, they had to create a phone that could utilize the operating system as they intended. The iPhone spawned the age of the touch screen, with its fresh controls, patented multi-touch technology and Internet capabilities. As with the iPod, the iPhone saw its share of accessories, such as the iPhone 3GS covers, iPhone chargers and iPhone speakers.
