Who Invented The Ipod?

Till 2000, digital music players were big and motionless or small and simples with awful
interfaces. Who invented the iPod? The answer for this question is not so easy to tell and we’ll
try in this article to bring some light on this matter. We can say for the beginning that two
competing versions of iPod’s creation giving us some references points: 1). Tony Fadell shopped
the idea around to Sony, Phillips, MS, until Apple agreed. Fadell's idea was to take an MP3
player, build a Napster music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it; 2).
Apple decided to built iPod and Jon Rubenstein advertised for an engineer and found Tony
Fadell. So Apple hired Fadell in early 2001 and assigned him a team of about 30 people,
including designers, programmers and hardware engineers Where is the truth? A little of both we
can say, but most stories only mention one or the other. So, on October 23, 2001 Steve Jobs
forever changed the course of media and entertainment distribution when he showed his amazing
creation: portable music digital player, known now as the Apple iPod. The name ‘iPod’ was
invented for use with the Apple music player by copywriter Vinnie Chieco. The device called
‘iPod’ to help market recognizing the new product. Now ‘iPod’ is registered trademark for
Apple. Apple Computer revealed their portable music digital player, iPod, on October 23, 2001,
created under a secret operation named Dulcimer. If we want to name a father for the iPod, only
one man we can find, Tony Fadell, an former member of General Magic and Phillips. Tony
Fadell wanted to creat a better MP3 player. This was the main idea. Because Real Networks and
Phillips refused Fadell’s invention, his project founded support in Apple. In 2001 a team (thirty
members) inside Apple was created under Tony Fadell’s leading. We have to notice here that
Tony Fadell in that time was also involved in a collaboration with PortalPlayer, a company who
also had been working on a new MP3 player. After Fadell’s team ended their contract, perfecting
the iPod was an issue solved by Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at
Apple Computer. Though the iPod prototype was unfinished, several models had beed built
because Tony Fadell recognized them. As we all know, until to create something, you must have
the idea. It was the same situation for the iPod. Tony Fadell, now Senior Vice President of the
iPod Division at Apple, had the idea, and the rest was Apple’s job, who took the iPod challenge
seriously. Now we can say: that was a remarkable move for Apple, who gave a pitiless stroke to
the competition, when the iTunnes Music Store was opened. So, who invented the iPod? After
Fadell’s registering inside the Apple organization, Steve Jobs was the man that accomplished the
active role in the project, and in eight months since that, the first iPod was ready (a portable
device for downloading audio - video from the internet iTunes Web site). Beside Tony Fadell, a
very important part from this project was Michael Dhuey (Design News nominated him for
"Engineer of the Year" in 2006 and 2007). They invented the iPod, the next generation of
portable music players that store music on an internal hard drive. iPod stores up to 1,000 CD-
quality songs on its super 5 GB hard drive, and features up to 20 minutes of shock protection for
nonstop playback when running, biking or other activities. Earlier I mentioned the iTunes Music
Store and I want to clear this concept. Only in the summer of 2003 this concept became real and
his number one object was to bring benefit for Apple. Since 2003, the iPod reached three new
generations, but none of this generations came up with revolutionary things. The first iPod
device who revolutionized the music industry had a mechanical scroll whell and 5 GB or 10 GB
capacities. The price was in conformity with the new invention: a bit under £300. The second
generation iPod removed the mechanical scroll wheel and introduced the touch-sensitive version,
in different form. The second generation was released in July 2002 and came in capacities up to
20 GB for £399, with the 5 GB at £259 and 10 GB for £329. We must say that the second
generation iPod’s are still in use today. With the third generation iPod, Apple removed the button
that surrounded the touch-screan sensitive wheel and instead set up backlit controls horizontally
under the LCD screen. Launched in April 2003, the third generation was the first that contained
Apple’s 30 – pin dock connector. The prices for the devices from this generation were
significantly lower than second generation devices: 10 GB - £249, 15 GB - £299 and 30 GB -
£399. With iPod, the inventors created a whole new generation of digital music player that
allows you to get with you, your entire favourite music and listen it wherever you go. “With
iPod, Steve Jobs said, listening to music will never be the same again”. And we have absolutely
no chance to contradict him. More than any other single product from Apple, the iPod has
changed the company and the world. Before its introduction, MP3 players were the realm of
small companies with limited budgets that were unable to provide content. In the end we can
conclude and answer at our first place question – Who invented the iPod? – Somehow Apple
managed to get all the big music labels to come on board, with iPod in the middle of all thing.