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Apple launched the iPod 23 years ago, and changed the world

The iPod line has vanished into history, but the influence of this once-ubiquitous device is still shaping Apple, music, and the world, 23 years on from its announcement on October 23, 2001.

The iPod line has vanished into history, but the influence of this once-ubiquitous device is still shaping Apple, music, and the world, 23 years on from its announcement on October 23, 2001. "The music lives on," was the whole headline for the May 2022 announcement that first admitted the iPod was dead, and then spent more time talking up Apple's AirPods. When Apple's Jon Rubinstein bought Toshiba's entire inventory of miniature hard drives for the device, and Tony Fadell worked on its hardware design, the iPod was intended to be only for the Mac.

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