A information submit went up final evening (Tuesday, India Time) – the day when Apple discontinued the iPod Touch, the final remaining iPod mannequin. “The music lives on”, reads the title of the submit, bringing again fond reminiscences of the iPod that cemented Apple into probably the most progressive tech firm on the planet. First introduced in 2001, the iPod not solely modified the music trade but additionally modified how we take into consideration expertise and design. Not solely the iPod was a turning level for Apple however its shock success elevated Jony Ive, a detailed artistic collaborator with Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs, as probably the most prolific industrial designer of the twenty first century. Ive later went on to design cult merchandise together with the iPhone, iPod, and Apple Watch, amongst others. While Apple says the iPod Touch will stay available for purchase “while stocks last”, we have a good time the legacy of the enduring music participant with 5 shocking information you may not have recognized about one of many world’s most progressive merchandise ever created.
Vinnie Chieco named the iPod
Nobody remembers Vinnie Chieco, a contract copywriter, who was instrumental in naming the ‘iPod,’ Apple’s first music participant. Sitting within the workplace of Apple in San Francisco, Chieco and a small group of freelance writers had been referred to as to call a product Apple was about to launch. When Chieco was handed the prototype, the gadget’s simplicity shocked him. The smooth-edges, white exterior reminded Chieco of a well-known line from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey the place the character Dr. Dave Bowman says, “Open the pod bay door, HAL!” In the movie, HAL is the pc that might management the ship. The “pod,” within the film is a spacecraft used for extravehicular exercise. Chieco noticed an analogy to the connection between the spaceship and the smaller unbiased pods within the relationship between a private laptop and the music participant.
The unique iPod was designed and engineered throughout the similar yr
It took Apple a single yr to design, engineer and launch the Original iPod to the general public, says the corporate’s ex-Apple SVP, Tony Fadell. Fadell, sometimes called the “Father of the iPod,” says when he joined Apple in late January to run the iPod challenge, the concept was merely to make a hard-drive-based MP3 participant. There was “No team, prototype, designs, nothing,” Fadell instructed Stripe CEP Patrick Collison. In truth, the challenge was not permitted by Jobs till practically the tip of March. Between May and October 2001, issues began to hurry up. By October of the identical yr – simply eight months later – Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in California to announce the iPod.
When Jony Ive referred to as the ‘iPod’ Apple’s first wearable
While chatting with Vogue’s Anna Wintour finally yr’s Re-Wired convention, Apple’s former design chief stated that the iPod was, in an actual sense, Apple’s first piece of wearable expertise. “I can’t think of anything more personal, more specific, more individual, and more intimate than things being inside us,” he instructed Wintour in an interview.
Steve Jobs initially wasn’t a fan of white Apple merchandise
The iPod’s aesthetic, minimalist format…the scroll wheel and accompanying headphones, in white, had all the weather of a signature Apple design. But have you learnt that Apple’s headphone cords aren’t precisely white. Leander Kahney’s e-book on Ive reveals that Jobs initially wasn’t on the identical web page as Ive on Apple’s designs transferring in a white course. Jobs disliked white initially for merchandise when Apple designers introduced the merchandise. So, Apple’s designers tried to provide you with colours that had been near white with out being white to make him completely satisfied. “The designers got here up with cloud white, snow white, glacial white, and moon grey, which regarded prefer it was white, however was actually grey. Jobs appreciated the moon grey, and permitted it for a keyboard”, says Kahney. Moon grey was additionally chosen to be the colour on the cords for Apple’s earbuds.
The iPod click on wheel was impressed from a Bang & Olufsen cordless phone
Did Apple invent the enduring scroll wheel on the primary iPod? No. Apple’s inspiration for the music participant’s wheel navigation got here from a Bang & Olufsen cordless phone. The concept to include the scroll wheel was Phil Schiller’s, Apple’s former SVP of promoting, who had an expertise with a Bang and Olufsen dwelling telephone that included a scroll wheel for scrolling by contacts.
Actually the wheel was impressed from this Bang & Olufsen DECT cordless telephone you may purchase on the time… @pschiller introduced it to the primary (what would develop into the iPod) assembly with Steve Jobs.https://t.co/AwcaZ2kRFm pic.twitter.com/jIwslsA02w
— Tony Fadell (@tfadell) May 10, 2022
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The Danish design firm Bang & Olufsen launched a DECT telephone referred to as BeoCom 6000 in 1998 with the identical bodily scroll wheel. Designed by Henrik Sørig Thomsen, the telephone used “an intuitive navigation wheel to give speedy access to practical features like a phone book.”
This was precisely 4 years earlier than Apple even thought-about making a devoted, moveable MP3 participant.
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