What is a I Pod ?

Question

What does it do?
Why should i buy one?

Answer 1

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. Devices in the iPod family are designed around a central scroll wheel (except for the iPod shuffle) and provide a simple user interface. Apple chose to focus its development on the iPod's user interface, rather than on its technical capability. The full-sized model stores media on a built-in hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices when connected to a computer.

The current lineup consists of the 5th generation iPod with a video player; the iPod nano with a color screen; and the iPod shuffle. All three models were released in 2005. Discontinued versions include two generations of the iPod mini and four generations of the full-sized iPod, all of which had monochrome screens (except for the iPod photo).

The bundled software used for transferring music, photos and videos is called iTunes. As a music jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the user's computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. The most recent version of iTunes has photo and video synchronization features.

The iPod is currently the world's best-selling digital audio player, and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. Some of Apple's design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

Answer 2

i have an i pod it holds far more than 500 songs
it integrates with its own programme on your computer (which is also a stand alone music databaser) called I Tunes
and you can put as many or as few of your song library items on it you can even have a play list called 'my top rated ' and rate your songs from 1 to 5
many new cars have connectors built in so that you can play it through your car radio speakers you can even buy a blootooth device .My son has integrated his with his TOM TOM and uses the tom tom screen to turn up/down the volume and pause etc
they are expensive but they are the best
My neice's I Pod has a bigger hard drive than her dads computer

Answer 3

I pod it's like a mp3 player but it's named Ipod. It's made from apples. . There are three types of ipod. Ipod suffle ipod nano and , ipod. IF you like music so much you should get ipod it's very good and can save up like 5000 music and songs. Ipod shuffle is good too, it's cheap and small. Do not get ipod nano. Ipod nano is for gay people and it's so small and breaks so easily. If you are gay or ***** you should get the ipod nano but i remind you not to cause it's SUX. It looks good and nice but useless . Those three are the most popular ones you can get.

Answer 4

holy crap kid were do you live!! well an i pod is like an mp3 but you can watcvh videos and play music.. you can store up too about 2.000 songs. and you should buy because there cool and everyone has one!!!lol there like 100-500 dollers there pretty cheap!!

Answer 5

Its like a MP3 player cept it can hold pics and videos very popular i would get 1 if i had da money lol bout 255$ worth it though

just search for "Ipod" on Ask.com

Answer 6

it is a mp3 player that is really popular. But just because it is popular doesn't mean it is the best, look at other brands like zen, samsung, and etc before you buy a mp3 player.
loo here for a picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod

Answer 7

it's a portable music player. instead of having a cd player, you can have a compact ipod & listen to hundreds, even thousands of songs. some even let you watch tv shows & music videos. you should only buy one if you're going to use it- otherwise it'll just sit around.

Answer 8

an ipod is a music player, similar to windows media player, or an mp3 player, yet it also has other facilities, like photos, and all that... its got lots of memory, but its expensive at the moment

Answer 9

Ipod is a gadget for music to listen to on the go . why u should buy one is because they r nice to have when on a long trip

Answer 10

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. Devices in the iPod family are designed around a central scroll wheel (except for the iPod shuffle) and provide a simple user interface. Apple chose to focus its development on the iPod's user interface, rather than on its technical capability. The full-sized model stores media on a built-in hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices when connected to a computer.

The current lineup consists of the 5th generation iPod with a video player; the iPod nano with a color screen; and the iPod shuffle. All three models were released in 2005. Discontinued versions include two generations of the iPod mini and four generations of the full-sized iPod, all of which had monochrome screens (except for the iPod photo).

The bundled software used for transferring music, photos and videos is called iTunes. As a music jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the user's computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. The most recent version of iTunes has photo and video synchronization features.

The iPod is currently the world's best-selling digital audio player, and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. Some of Apple's design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

The iPod came from Apple's digital hub strategy, as the company began creating software for the growing market of digital devices purchased by consumers. While digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established markets, the company found digital music players lacking in quality and decided to develop its own.

Philips executive in the company's Windows CE division, left Philips to create a hard drive based MP3 player and music service [1]. He founded a company, Fuse, to develop and sell the idea to major media companies. After RealNetworks turned him down, Apple accepted and the development of the iPod began.

Uncharacteristically, Apple decided not to develop the iPod's hardware or software in-house. Instead, Apple contracted with PortalPlayer, which already had a reference design with rudimentary software running on top of a Pixo-developed operating system. PortalPlayer had been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones, but dropped it to work with Apple.[1]

The PortalPlayer reference design was approximately the size of a cigarette pack and had an array of buttons on the front, resembling an FM pocket radio. Apple refined the user interface (under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs). In order to keep the form factor safe from industrial espionage, the prototype iPods were all housed in shoebox size enclosures with randomly placed controls, so that the final form factor would remain secret until the unveiling.[2]

The biggest changes Apple made were fixing bugs and adding a new user interface. The PortalPlayer reference design did not support playlists longer than ten songs and had no equalizer. The one major change Apple made to the software was to create a brand new user interface centered on the centrally placed scroll wheel.

The user interface for the iPod has gone relatively unchanged. With the release of the iPod mini, a brand new font was adopted, replacing Chicago, a font bundled with the original Macintosh, Espy Sans, which was used in eWorld and Copland. The most recent iPods have switched fonts again to Myriad, Apple’s new official corporate font. With the iPod photo, aqua-like progress bars were adopted in addition to other Aqua features like brushed metal in the FM tuner and lock.

Development began in February 2001 (one month after iTunes was released) and was announced to the public on October 23, 2001 as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs in your pocket."