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“It ranked the whole web so the rest of us could know where we stood.”
“A thousand songs in your pocket, and twenty years of them in our hearts.”
Launched on November 10, 2001, ten months after iTunes arrived on the Mac, the iPod was a series of portable media players that became a multi-purpose companion for music, photos, videos, games, and even contacts and calendars. Some models doubled as external data storage, and for years the ritual of syncing one to your computer was a daily part of life. Apple eventually sold an estimated 450 million of them, which t
On May 10, 2022, Apple officially discontinued the iPod line, closing out a lifespan of over 20 years — the longest-running product the company has ever retired. Its spirit lived on long before the end: the iPod branding even named the media player inside iPhones and iPads until iOS 5 split it into the Music and Videos apps. Few products get to run two decades and bow out on their own terms; the iPod did exactly that
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“It ranked the whole web so the rest of us could know where we stood.”
“It opened the internet for millions, then politely asked if Edge could take it from here.”
“The budget flagship that made everyone else's phone feel overpriced.”