2001 (iPod, Artificial Heart)

iPod is a brand of a series of devices digital media player designed and sold by Apple ( Hewlett-Packard also had to sell the product with the name Apple iPod + HP). The name "iPod" is also the name of one of the first digital media player variant in the sequence (this variant is now called the "iPod classic"). Most of the variants of the iPod provides a user interface (user interface) that is simple to use design in the form of wheel (scroll wheel). IPod classic stores data on a hard drive, while all other models use flash memory . Like most of the other music players, the iPod can be used as an external hard drive when connected to a computer.

 Tony Fadell was first inspired to make the iPod outside of Apple Computer: the time he had difficulty finding funds to finance the music player device he created. ^{[ citation needed ]} At the time he showed it to Apple Computer, the company hired him as an independent contractor for fruition of this project. He was given the responsibility to raise a team that will develop the first two generations of this device. After the development of the iPod is then performed under the auspices of Jonathan Ive , head of the industrial design group at Apple Computer.

Until October 2004, the iPod music player device sales dominate in the United States, by winning 92% of the hard drive market and more than 65% of the market other types. iPods have been sold at a rapid pace, exceeding ten million units in the last three years. The device has a huge cultural impact on society when compared with the device when it was first launched.