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The document discusses the history and impact of the iPod. It describes how the iPod made it possible for people to carry their music collection with them and listen anywhere, overcoming limitations of previous digital music players. The iPod became hugely popular in a short time due to its ease of use and Apple's iTunes software. It revolutionized the music industry by contributing to the decline of CD/cassette sales and democratizing music production and distribution. While the iPod was not widely adopted in India due to its high price and unavailability of music, smartphones later enabled widespread adoption of digital music in India through online streaming services. The iPod left a lasting legacy as a revolutionary device that changed the world in a short

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I Pod

The document discusses the history and impact of the iPod. It describes how the iPod made it possible for people to carry their music collection with them and listen anywhere, overcoming limitations of previous digital music players. The iPod became hugely popular in a short time due to its ease of use and Apple's iTunes software. It revolutionized the music industry by contributing to the decline of CD/cassette sales and democratizing music production and distribution. While the iPod was not widely adopted in India due to its high price and unavailability of music, smartphones later enabled widespread adoption of digital music in India through online streaming services. The iPod left a lasting legacy as a revolutionary device that changed the world in a short

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The iPod has made it possible for you to keep your favorite songs with you and listen

to any song
anywhere, anytime. What that magic was, is hard to fathom today!

Sony was the first company to recognize the need to listen to music whenever you want. His
"Walkman" drove young people around the world crazy in the 1980's. At the turn of the century,
Apple created the 'Digital Music Player', which works just like the Walkman. The iPod Classic,
launched by Apple in October 2001, is about four inches in size. However, the iPod made it possible
for the average person to store almost a thousand songs in this tiny device, keep almost all his music
collection in a flat box and keep it with him and listen to any song or music anywhere, anytime.

Of course, the iPod was not the first digital music player in the world. Some other companies have
launched small digital music players, but there are many limitations to putting songs on them and
listening to them. Apple overcame those limitations with great humor. A very handsome device, with
a small round plate on it and just four buttons at the end, was the look of the first iPod. In addition
to allowing Apple to automatically sync songs from its own iTunes software to the iPod, the iPod
became hugely popular in a short period of time as it became easier for the average consumer with
little technical knowledge to use digital music!

The iPod literally stirred the music scene. Before the advent of the iPod, millions of CDs / cassettes of
popular albums were sold worldwide, and the iPod and subsequent digital music players plunged the
worldwide market for billions of CDs / cassettes of music and closed in a matter of years.

Apple created its own iTunes marketplace alternative to the traditional music marketplace. Instead
of buying an entire album from that market, it became possible to buy only one holiday song. As a
result, instead of just releasing their albums by big bands and big companies, anyone in the world
could create their own songs, their own music and sell it on iTunes. Making music and distributing it
all over the world was democratized without being a huge investment game. (Of course, this is a big
contribution to YouTube, which was launched around the same time as the iPod.)

Podcasting (and later audio books) is another important change brought about by iPods. Podcasting
has made it possible for anyone in the world to record a lecture on any topic in their own voice and
pass it on to others. This, of course, resulted in the democratization of education and dissemination
of knowledge.

In a country with a huge music craze like India, however, the iPod has not gained much popularity.
The iPod used to fetch Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000 in India, which was very expensive for middle class
music lovers at that time. Also, due to some legal issues, the entire music on iTunes is not available
in India and Bollywood songs are not available on it.
For these reasons, the iPod may not have become very popular in India. Later, Indians also embraced
digital music on a large scale, but not using iPods, but using smartphones! Towards the end of the
first decade of 2000, iPhone and Android smartphones became popular. All smartphones also had
the ability to store and listen to digital music. The second decade saw the mobile internet revolution
in the form of 3G / 4G. This was followed by a number of online music streaming services. Both the
growing use of smartphones and the rise of online music streaming have led to a surge in the use
and sales of digital music players such as the iPod. The iPod finally took its last breath last week.

Although the iPod will no longer be available, it will go down in history as a device that
revolutionized the world in a short period of time!

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