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As Steve Jobs said many years ago, music is a part of everyone’s life. It has always been and will always be there. Apple found an opportunity 21 years ago when it introduced its latest creation, the iPod.

As the company announced today that it is ending production of the iPod Touch, let’s go back to the day in 2001 when Steve Jobs first introduced the device.

When the iPod was announced, there was no market leader in digital music. In this pre-iPhone era, Apple decided to lash out knowing it could reign supreme in that market.

The device fit in your pocket and was more economical than a CD player, flash player, MP3 player or hard drive. Taken together, this is an MP3 music player with CD quality music that plays popular open digital music formats. The original iPod was incredible because it held 1,000 songs—more than most people’s entire music library.

In the keynote speech, Jobs also highlighted the major achievements of the iPod. This ultra-portable device is equipped with a 5 GB hard drive, 1.8 inches in diameter and 0.2 inches thick; the whole device was about the size of a deck of cards, highlighting the stunning stainless steel back. Another feature we don’t think about right now is that the iPod had 20-minute skip protection. It’s hard to win at that time.

The iPod was also the first music player to work with FireWire, a cable that charged the device and allowed songs to be transferred. In just 5-10 seconds, a user could download an entire CD album—you could even fill the device with 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes. With FireWire, it could quickly charge up to 80% capacity in one hour and was 30 times faster than any MP3 player of the day.

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With up to 10 hours of continuous music playback, the most advanced rechargeable battery of the time, the iPod became an instant hit.

Goodbye digital music player

As we end this era, it’s time to reflect on how far we’ve come in two decades. What do you think about Apple’s abandonment of the device? Did you own the original?

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