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9 September Apple announced the end of production of the iPod Classic. After 13 years, the music player will disappear from the market. This symbolic event in the modern history of new technologies.

iPod first generation was unveiled by Steve Jobs on October 23 , 2001. slogan then spoke to the imagination. It sounded “1000 songs in your pocket” . The unit had a 5 GB of memory, an LCD display and it cost $ 399. Half a year later, the company introduced a 10 GB model.

In July 2002. Presented the second generation iPod in April 2003. Third generation. In the latter placed near Touch Wheel, which was used for navigation. Amended in the fourth edition of the player in the other solution with Click Wheel presented earlier iPod Mini. The unit waited even two new versions. iPod Classic 6th generation Steve Jobs showed 5 September 2007. For seven years the player has not been subject to significant changes.

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iPod was the beginning of a new era not only in the technology industry, but also the music industry. Product presentation was a prelude to what happened later. April 28, 2003, Apple opened the iTunes Store, the biggest music store in the history, which is already for 1 dollar you can buy a song favorite artist. For 10 years, until February 2013. Users bought 25 billion songs. “With an average of more than 15 000 downloads of music per minute, the iTunes Store allows music lovers to reach out to their favorite artists, both popular, like Adele and Coldplay, as well as new, like The Lumineers – and on a scale that could not be yourself before even imagine “- said the Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president.

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is not known exactly how many copies sold of Apple, but sales of all players in the different versions can be counted in hundreds of millions of carefully pieces, and they are very bold estimates. Currently, sales are still 3 models: iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod touch, but it was a classic player-symbol, adored by users.