The first IPod was presented 10 years ago, by Steve Jobs (who was wearing exactly the same outfit than the following 10 years until his death… jean, baskets, black turtleneck): it was on Monday, 23rd October 2001.
Here is a video of the presentation.
At the beginning, the IPod had been criticized: people were expecting a new concept and not something that similar to a MP3. But Steve Jobs kept confident thanks to the look of the IPod: indeed, the IPod has a click wheel which was something new (and is still on the IPod today). It is only in 2004 that the IPod became successful.
Apple have sold 320 millions IPOD in 10 years… while Samsung sold only 300,000 walkman in 30 years, said Tim Cook the 4th October, when he was presenting the new versions of IPod Nano and IPod Touch.
But even with those good results, it is impossible not to wonder when Apple is going to end the manufacture of IPods…
Apple, with the IPod, sold 70% of the MP3 in 2011. The IPod revenues, in 2011, were 7,44 billions dollars, which represents only 6,8% of all Apple’s revenues.
Nowadays, a large range of IPods exists: IPod Shuffle, IPod Touch, IPod Nano, IPod Classic:
http://iphone-apple.fr/2007/09/07/resume-les-nouveaux-produits-ipod-dapple/
In contrast with the first IPod….
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/origin-of-the-ipod.html
Here is a graph showing the sales of IPod since 10 years:
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