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.

48336 94363 000 d3 iPodFrom launch to discontinuation, the iPod lasted 7,504 days, and across that time it went from limited appeal, to incredible mass market hit, and on to being practically forgotten. Originally, if only briefly, just for Mac users, the iPod somehow managed to be become both a status symbol and ubiquitous, all at the same time.”We lured you here today,” Steve Jobs told assembled journalists on October 23, 2001, “with the promise of a breakthrough digital device that’s not a Mac. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”

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