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iPod History

The concept of a brand new MP3 player was envisioned by Tony Fadell. The idea was to design a small hard drive-based player, which should have differed from bulky flash memory-based MP3 players.
The First iPod was based on 5 GB Toshiba hard drives. The drives were the size of a quarter. It used Pixo operating system, a high resolution display, a lithium polymer battery. The most recognizable feature about the first iPod was the scroll wheel on the front of the device instead of skip buttons. The wheel was used to scroll through the list of songs and to control the menus. This innovation made it easier to navigate through the play list. The most serious disadvantage was lack of Windows compatibility. It was taken into consideration and by 2002 appeared new iPod version which was Windows PC compatible through MusicMatch. In addition it came with 20 GB of storage space. The scroll wheel was replaced by a wheel similar to a notebook's touchpad, surrounded by a ring of buttons. Another revision took place in April 2003. All mechanical buttons were removed. The storage spaced ranged from 10 GB up to 40 GB. The 3rd generation iPods were powered by lithium-ion batteries.
Apple continues to refine the software's look by changing the font and themes. The iPods adopted Mac OS X themes and font similar to Apple's font Myriad..