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Farewell to the iPod

After more than two decades, Apple is stopping production of the devices that changed consumer electronics and led to the creation of the iPhone.

After nearly 22 years, Apple is stopping production of the devices that changed consumer electronics and led to the creation of the iPhone.

It was the iMac that saved Apple Computer, but it was the iPod that made the company into a consumer technology hit — and it lasted for an amazing 21 years.

Stories and lessons from his time at Apple and Google, as told in his new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most trusted (and talented) senior executives knowing the whole story.

Nir Bar Dea and Mark Bertolini have taken the helm as co-CEOs.

Yesterday was the official 20th anniversary of the iPod, the product that began Apples road back from the verge of bankruptcy back in 1997. It was Apples first truly innovative device beyond Macs that caught the world by surprise, killing off Sonys Walkman and MP3 players in short order. It was a phenomena that could hold a 1,000 songs in your pocket .

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