🛠️ Invention or technique

iPod and iTunes Store

iPod e iTunes Store

Date
2001-2003 · confidence high
Place
Apple, Cupertino, California, United States
Credited to
Apple (Tony Fadell, Jon Rubinstein, Steve Jobs)
Field
Tools

What it is

A music player with a thousand-song hard drive and a legal store selling individual songs for 99 cents. It legitimised digital music and rescued Apple.

What it led to

  • The sale of individual songs and the end of the album as a unit
  • The iPhone, direct heir to the iPod
  • The podcast and subscription streaming
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