Apple Presents the iPod

23rd October 2001

On this day, in Cupertino, California, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, introduced the iPod, the breakthrough MP3 music player capable of holding 1000 CD-quality songs in an ultraportable design that would fit into a pocket. There were already other MP3 players on the market, but Apple’s innovation was to improve the trade-off between capacity and portability and to come up with a simple and intuitive user interface. In Steve Job’s own words, “With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go.” The iPod’s unique scroll-wheel made it possible to hold and operate the iPod with just one hand. The iPod also featured customisable settings such as shuffle, repeat, startup volume, sleep timer and menus in multiple languages including English, French, German and Japanese. Apple discontinued the iPod product line on 10 May, 2022.

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The Debut of the Computer Mouse

27th April 1981

On this day, the computing world changed forever with the arrival on the scene of the world’s first commercial computer mouse. The mouse was connected to an incredibly expensive, futuristic personal computer, the Xerox Star, and while the computer was an economic failure, the mouse was destined to revolutionise the future of man’s interaction with computers. Although the original mouse was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbart and Bill English, the innovations of the Xerox Star mouse finally gave computing a spatial dimension it had never possessed before, providing an essential ease of use to personal computing. When Apple’s first Macintosh computer came on the market in 1984, the future of the mouse was assured.

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