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Recently we have received a lot of e-mail requests of people looking for a cheap iPod mini. Well look no further, we have the sources you need to get a super cheap ipod mini. They key differences between the mini and it’s big brother the classic is the size. Both the size of the actual unit and the hard drive on the inside. The mini usually comes in 8gb, 16gb, and 32gb. Usually people who are buying their first iPod start with the mini and work their way up to a classic or a touch. The mini is perfect for the “on-the-go” sort of person who wants a media player for working out or traveling. Super small and portable is what makes the mini king.

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Aug 19

Who Invented the iPod?

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Who Invented the iPod?

Today’s question of the day has probably crossed all of our minds at some point. Who actually thought of inventing the iPod?

To answer this question there are really two parts… The simple part and the long explanation. We will give you both:

Simple Explanation:
Jonathan Ive, currently a senior VP at Apple, is widely regarded as the main person responsible with the industrial design behind the original iPod and other manifestations thereof.

You can read an article about him on Wikipedia or visit his fan website.

Long Story:
iPod came from Apple’s “digital hub” category,[5] when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players “big and clunky or small and useless” with user interfaces that were “unbelievably awful,”[5] so Apple decided to develop its own. As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple’s hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the iPod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey,[6] and design engineer Jonathan Ive.[5] The product was developed in less than one year and unveiled on October 23, 2001. Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put “1,000 songs in your pocket.”

Uncharacteristically, Apple did not develop the iPod software entirely in-house, instead using PortalPlayer’s reference platform based on 2 ARM cores. The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system. PortalPlayer had previously been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones.[5] Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.[5] As development progressed, Apple continued to refine the software’s look and feel. Starting with the iPod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans. Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium Sans — a font similar to Apple’s corporate font, Myriad. iPods with color displays then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal in the lock interface. In 2007, Apple modified the iPod interface again with the introduction of the sixth-generation iPod Classic and third-generation iPod Nano by changing the font to Helvetica and, in most cases, splitting the screen in half by displaying the menus on the left and album artwork, photos, or videos on the right (whichever was appropriate for the selected item).
(From Wikipedia)