A Brief History Of The Ipod - iPod is a digital mp3 / mp4 player developed and marketed by Apple Inc., a U.S. consumer electronics multinational corporation. During his investigation, Apple found that compared with available video cameras, digital cameras, and organizers; digital music players recorded poor sales, mainly due to their horrible user interfaces. Apple wanted to do something about it and so Jon Rubinstein, Apple's hardware engineering Chief brought together a team consisting of Tony Fadell (who played with a hard drive-based music player), Michael Dhuey (hardware engineer), Jonathan Ive (design engineer), and Stan Ng (marketing manager). In less than a year, he designed a music player based on hard drive, which had a 5 GB hard disk capable of storing 1,000 songs.
Apple's iTunes software is used to operate the iPod (m3 / mp4 player). The software is compatible with all Mac systems. The operating system is stored on your hard drive. A boot loader program is contained in a NOR flash ROM chip (1 MB or 512 KB) that indicates the device to load the operating system from the hard disk. The iPod has 32 MB of RAM, a part of which is used to hold the operating system firmware, and the rest is used to store songs from the hard drive. Apple also invented a technology whereby the hard disk of the iPod could spin out above once, and around 30 MB of upcoming songs can be stores cached in RAM. This did not require the disk to rotate to each song and thus guard had battery power. Apple also introduced a version of Windows from iPod, at a later stage.
iPod audio files (mp3 / mp4 player) supports MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio file formats. MIDI and WMA files can be played only when a converter accomplishes the conversion, for now - Digital Rights Management DRM. Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and other open-source audio formats are not compatible at all.
Apple wanted a very user friendly interface and thus adopted the minimalist interface, essential features only five buttons, i.e. menu (access to functions and to change the backlight); Center (for the selection of menu item); Play / pause (this also works as an off switch within few seconds); Skip ahead / fast; Jump backwards and quick kick. Provides an additional button for accidental button pushing prevention, and you can reset the iPod if it has frozen or crashed. Functions such as volume control, displacement are handled by the use of the rotational click wheel. Later models have some minor changes in the functions of the buttons, but in general, the number of buttons has remained at five.
On the market this innovative mp3 / mp4 player, they needed a suitable future name, and thus that hired an independent copywriter, Vinnie Chieco and other writers to give a name. Inspired by the film 2001: a Space Odyssey and the dialogue "open the door pod, Hal Bay!" about the context of the spaceship Discovery one and its pods of EVA white, Vinnie Chieco proposed the name of the product as iPod. Apple Management accepted the proposed name and on 23 October 2001, the iPod was officially launched. The rest they say is history.
So customers to access songs of your choice, Apple opened a store in The media line iTunes Store on April 29, 2003, where individual songs could be transferred at prices less than a dollar per song. Purchased songs can be played only on iPods. Later versions of this iPod (mp3 / mp4 player) also offer video capabilities, and thus iTunes Store began selling videos of 12 October 2005. September 12, 2006, films of long duration were also available on the iTunes Store.
iPod they have come a long way since its inception, and now the latest fifth generation of iPods have multimedia capabilities and are available in versions of Mac OS and Windows OS. If a new iPod is connected to a Mac OS computer, then the hard disk of this mp3 / mp4 player is formatted according to the format of files HFS + and connected to a computer the Windows operating system is formatted as a FAT32 file format. If a digital music player, the iPod has now become a digital media player.
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