On October 23 in 2001, apple rolled out the first of the iPods. These powerful machines held a massive 5 Gigabytes, Count 'em! 5 Whopping Gigabytes! they ran on a massive hard drive, and had a short battery life. But hey! they played over 1000 songs! And, best of all, it kept them all organized with this nifty little application called iTunes!
Okay, I'll admit it, the first generation iPods were pretty lame. However, they did have several things that most other music players had. They had a hard drive, for one. This was huge, considering that it was probably the highest capacity hard drive of it's size at the time. It also did have a media managing app that did all of the managing for you. No other player had the sync capabilities that the iPod did (correct me if I'm wrong). it also had a spinning wheel for selections through menus, which I know that no-one else had. However, it did have one minor glitch. The hard drive seemed to give out on mine right after the warranty expired. Apple would be happy to fix it for a fine $200. I did not fix it, and so as forever doomed to experience the famous iPod "Hard drive click of Death!".
As far as technology goes, this platform is still supported. Apple is still selling refurbished ones on the Apple store, and it will still sync witht he current version of iTunes. However, I would much rather have a new nano or iPod touch. Wouldn't you?
All for now!
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