Now we can hardly find a person who doesn’t know Apple’s great product – iPod. It has become a kind of symbol like the Mercedes or the Rolex. Launched on October 2001, it has made a revolution in the field of music players and changed the way people think about music players. They are no more old big boxes which look really ugly. The IPod has a better look than any other music player in the market. Modern and sleek, compact and roomy, the item has entered Western culture and has made a great impact in every sphere from culture to economics.
Still not everyone is aware of the history of ipod and that’s why we can face a great number of questions like: who invented the iPod, who was the first with the idea of iPod, who is the real creator of the iPod? As the question is very popular, I’ll try to answer it. So my article today is related to the topic of “who invented the iPod”.
In reality, we can’t name just one person that can be pointed as the actual “inventor” of the iPod. And the iPod wasn’t “invented” in our traditional understanding of the word. Its concept and design came into being in 2001. There already existed MP3 players which were created by German research center. But Apple had a desire to make MP3 players somehow smaller and more stylish.
For this reason ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple’s hardware engineering team with Jon Rubinstein in charge started developing of the item. The product was to be developed in less than one year. Jon Rubenstein can be credited to putting the initial pieces together. He did a great deal of research work to see if such a device was even possible and they found out that it was.
The outward look came about when Jonathan Ive was hired to create what was to be the iPod. He designed the whole thing to be pleasing to the eye, to “feel” like it deserved expensive, and to be hip. In his usual style, designer Jonathan Ive designed the iPod to be smart and compact. And thus, the mp3 became something much more — it became the iPod.
Who invented the iPod
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