Ipod – The new MP3 music player.
Each tape or record only contained a few songs, and they were physically bulky. That meant that people had entire walls devoted to music and book storage space. It's hard to image when one looks at it today, but a single, inexpensive IPod Shuffle can contain 100 to 400 songs, which would be the equivalent of five to twenty LP albums or tapes in the days of old. The IPod Nano is the smallest of the group of IPods in the market today. It's about 60% of the size of a credit card, and almost as thin. It uses solid-state memory rather than a small spinning disk, which makes it easier to store and play back music. IPods generally are small and easy to work with, but the IPod Nano is a new smallness in the Apple lineup.
The IPod Accessories have become a sine qua non for many users today. They are not happy to just have the IPod itself and the ear buds that come in the box. They are also looking for external speakers, connections to their car stereos, extra ear buds with special connectors so that they can share with their friends, and special connections to their other electronic equipment so they can download and share with their friends.
The IPod movies now bring the ubiquitous box to the next stage. It's possible for each movie to take up to 5GB, which means that even a 40GB IPod can only store about 8 movies if they have nothing else on them. That means that capacity must move up.
Other IPod Accessories, which sell well, include the IPod cases, which are a way to personalize things for the user and differentiate his or her IPod from those used by their friends and acquaintances. The IPod cases are personalized in millions of ways, as are other fashion accessories or items of jewelry. The customer began with teenage girls, but now everyone of every age is customizing his or her IPod case to demonstrate that yes, I am a real person and different from everyone else in the whole wide world.