New on YouTube today, watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduce the very first iPod at a special Apple event on October 23, 2001.
Jobs said, “We love music and it’s always good to do something you love… With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.”
Apple’s October 23, 2001 press release, “Apple Presents iPod” is here.
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That’s history right there…
“…you don’t want to wait.. so we built in fire wire”
well not any more
I like when he says that the back is really durable, and when he slips the iPod into his pocket.
I kept my iPod in my pocket for a couple of hours, noticed that the back and screen were getting totally scratched up from rubbing against the cotton cloth of my pocket, and moved the iPod to its case instead.
The case it came with continued to scratch it up every time I removed or replaced the iPod. Finally I just gave up and figured I would have to settle for a nicely working, yet scratched all to hell iPod.
Five years later, and Apple finally has a solution – a $99 case! Brilliant!
duncan, that’s because USB 2 offers 400 Kb/s while firewire offers 480 Kb/s. So, the difference is not that drastic. Enjoy.
Brilliant. Apple was so far ahead of the curve, and so many people thought this was a flop.
Interesting that:
-The crowds were smaller then
-There was no Keynote app for the slideshow, but the slides were simple and beautiful, just like now
-iBook really is dated after 5 years. It’s had a great run, now it’s high time for a replacement
-Steve doesn’t look any older now…that hyperbaric chamber has paid for itself, and then some
I have one of those first generation iPods. Still works.
I love how Nirvana was the top CD in the pile of music slide
This should be in the Smithsonian museum someday.
MW: “industry” as in the industry standard for digital music player.
And I would also like to say that Firewire 400 loads the iPod considerably faster than USB 2.
USB 2 just plain suks a$$$$.
IT has it backwards: FireWire offers 400 Kb/s and USB 2 offers 480 Kb/s. However, all USB 2 devices share that bandwidth evenly, while FireWire gives out its bandwidth only as needed.
The moral? Hook your iPod directly up to your computer; don’t use a hub.
wow – what a beautiful day it was!
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Seeing this mov and my new nano brings a tear to my eye
watching this i remeber why i am still hanging on to my very first 5GB iPod which I bought of the very first batch at the MacExpo in London (nov 2001)
Amazing.
So MANY of the people sitting in that room simply didn’t understand the history they were watching as it was being done.
Amazing.
Yvan Cournoyer-
Its not a small crowd- its a full room. It just wasn’t unveiled at a MacWorld.
The crowds were that small recently when they launched iPod Hi-fi a month or so ago.
have a download?
“anyone?”
here’s a download:
http://appletvads.com/ads/keynotes/2001/2001-10-23 iPod Intro 2001.mov
(its the full event)
Haha, I love how he talked about how they wanted to grab the market and become the leader, and the iPod was going to do that. Turned out to be quite the accurate prediction.
My bad
http://appletvads.com/ads/keynotes/2001/2001-10-23 iPod Intro 2001.mov
HTML doesn’t work, unfortunately. I think we’ve got it though, thanks.
here
MDN- you should have a preview button
This is old news MDN. Have you been living under a rock?
Where are the stories about Bush saying US government created the iPod?
Yvan Cournoyer? Are you the one and only Road Runner!!! no way!!
“iMac, iBook, iPod.”
Classic.
Apple, you’ve come a long way baby!
Funny, to think a 1,000 songs comprised a person’s song library. Yeah, we have come a long way
I was better than the Road Runner!
In Soviet Union, iPod listens to you
Sorry I broke your ankle, Valeri. Or I would be if I wasn’t such a goon.
“iMac, iBook, iPod.”
Classic.
So now its going to be: MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacPod?
Hey, Chris in the Natti.
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I think you meant Al Gore, not Bush. Remember, Gore invented the Internet–not.
Kate
Gosh. I remember that. EVERYBODY thought it was too expensive and would be a complete flop. People on the boards were screaming that they would NEVER buy one.
I guess, like analysts, they can be wrong.
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People complain about Steve’s hyperbole and RDF, so when Steve said:
“With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.” He was not exaggerating! If he was “distorting” reality at the time it has certainly become the reality here and now. That’s the creative process, envision a future reality and then make it happen!
Steve described the future impact of the iPod as though he knew it was going to happen, almost as though he had already seen the future. Maybe that’s his secret—time travel!
“iMac, iBook, iPod.”
So when is the nano going to be rebranded the macPod..and the iPod w/video the macPodPro??
Whaaaa? What are people talking ’bout – Steve looks heaps older (his hair’s completely white now, for one), USB2 is heaps better than Firewire (it’s faster and the cords are much less chunky), and that presentation looked crappy – using that horrible font and all. His presentations now have improved about 100 fold.
Notice Steve’s emphasis on ultraportability. “Why wouldn’t I just use my iBook? Because this is ultraportable…”
I need a MacBook nano! 1000 MHz in your pocket! (or more?)
Jeez USB2 only has a theoretical peak of 480 Mb/s (thats megabits, not bytes) which has never been reached outside intels controlled lab, it has an average data transfer of 100 with burst not even reaching 200. FireWire has a peak of 400 with its average just over 300. For example it took over 3 hours to copy 60GB of data over USB2 yet only 1 hour for the same over FireWire. USB2 is shite plain & simple which obviously you are Hans.
MDN: Love you to death. visit 15 times a day…
but, never ever ever ever link or load a you tube video again.
Ever.
The image is crusty, the interface is ok but unresponsive, and the sound quality sucks scissors. Spend two minutes on Google and you will be sure to find a reasonable quality QT of the same video.
Don’t settle for mediocrity. That’s why Windows is so succesful.
you-the-man-now-dog
Loved the trip down memory lane.
Hans Blix, the reason that presentation looks el cheapo is because it looks like an early beta of Keynote. At Keynote’s release in 2003 SJ said he had been testing it secretly in public
can’t you tell?
Hans Blix is a satirist!