iPod, iPhone, and the beginning of Apple Music
How the iPod became the Everything Phone
Back in 2007, Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce “three revolutionary products… an iPod, a phone and an internet device”. But they were one device: the iPhone. “The iPod changed everything in 2001,” Jobs said. “And we’re going to do it again with the iPhone in 2007.”
The iPhone was the second iTunes phone: the first, Motorola’s ROKR, was launched in 2005 with a palpable lack of enthusiasm by Jobs. Maybe it was the lack of storage space or the slow USB connection and lack of wireless data transfer. The ROKR was in actual fact a ‘disaster’.
Money for old iPods
>>> Sealed, limited edition iPods command seriously big sums from collectors —a sealed Billie Holiday model from 2002 is currently around $7,957 on eBay, but even at the lower end of the market you can get a good price for as–new iPods. The 7th–generation iPod classic is particularly popular.