Comprehensive Analysis of the iPod

Since the birth of the first iPod, the whole iPod family products have gone through 10 years of development history, its influence is also growing. Since the launch of iPod, it is not just a simple MP3, it also is not only necessarily a hard disk that can be connected to the headset. In the past 10 years, the emergence of the iPod has changed the consumer electronics industry. IHS iSuppli consumer electronics industry Chief Analyst Jordan Selburn said "the iPod opened the era of digital consumer electronics, iPod put consumers and content together, and this has had a profound effect on all current consumer electronics." Over the past 10 years, the iPod had a great influence and even become synonymous with portable digital music player. Jerzy Buzek said: "the design of the iPod is very simple and has an aesthetic appeal, what is more, it also uses high quality materials such as stainless steel. Apple industrial design team that was led by Ivy focused on strict and sustainable design philosophy: the first generation of the iPod met Apple's product line, and the latest generation iPod is the same, using the integrated molding process, which is similar to the iMac and MacBook Pro. â€ He also said: "the simplicity of the iPod itself has already said it all: there are no unnecessary buttons or scroll wheel, with a single function keys, users navigate the iPod's entire music library. In addition to hardware, the user interface and user experience of the ipod also had an enormous influence on markets. HubSpot interface designer Joshua Porter said: "the user interface design of the iPod has had a huge impact on consumer electronics products, from the first day of the birth of the ipod has completely changed the industry.â€ But it still need to improve, for it is not compatible with PC and MAC, if we want to transfer music from ipod to mac or transfer music from ipod to computer, we can not do this directly, the best way is to use an ipod to mac transfer. App Store revolution Neither the iPhone nor the iPad, looking for interesting software are necessary and unique in the App store. Apple is starting from the iPod, the concept into the iTunes App Store, then gradually it evolved into a standard pattern of software sales. Apple's App Store model is actually a set of software including fixed mode of the development, submission, review, download, and update , which is easy to operate. Innovative media tools From the birth of the ipod , iPod is not just a music player, in addtion to music, iPod also has the storage function of photo and video,which makes it a multimedia player. The other hand, iPod do not need the users to do anything extra, you can run stable well . This concept has also been introduced on the iPhone and iPad, which made the iPad can be used to replace computer media tools for most of the work. With the iPad, we can without opening the PC and also can easily finish on the iPad, and that is why media tools as a result of extraordinary significance.