`With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.`
What you need to know
Apple`s iPod turns 20 today.
Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on October 23, 2001.
At the time he said `With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.`
Today marks the 20 year anniversary of Apple`s iPod, announced by Steve Jobs on October 23, 2001.
At a small event in 2001, Apple`s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs told an audience that Apple had `invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go`, claiming that `With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.`
Apple`s first iPod let you store 1,000 CD-quality songs on its 5GB hard drive, transferred using a built-in FireWire port. Transferring 1,000 songs took `less than 10-minutes`, and Apple boasted 20 minutes of shock protection for the hard drive so that you could use the iPod while running, biking, or exercising.
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