Apple today is all about the iPhone, so much so that it seems to have forgotten the device that pulled them from the relative obscurity of the 90s and made them a household name after the turn of the century. You should have guessed it by now - the iPod! It was announced 15 years ago (on October 23, 2001) by Steve Jobs himself, a revolution in digital music. Far from the first portable digital music player, it was the first that people used en masse. Creative's stuff didn't quite catch on, despite the ubiquity of its PC sound cards. If you don't mind a bit of nostalgia, you can watch...
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