So have we. And thanks to [Cabel] of at Panic.com, we have a rare glimpse at a prototype first generation Apple iPod. In the days before you could just stream your favorite music directly from ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Music is life for a lot of people, and the original iPod made it possible to carry an ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

The original iPod is considered iconic, but Apple has bullishly cut support for legacy technologies over the years. Apple has made controversial moves, like axing the headphone jack, citing a ...

Ultimately, the parts left of the original iPod were most of the mainboard and some flex cable, which raises the question of whether it might not have been faster and easier to start off with ...

The one that started it all. First released on October 23, 2001, the original iPod had a 5GB memory, which was a moving disk not an SSD, and a Firewire connection to plug into your Mac.

Kim: But sales have been in decline for over a decade. How did the iPod go from being one of the most popular gadgets to being basically nonexistent? In 1999, the US music industry had its biggest ...

What if Apple took the same approach and made a 20th Anniversary iPod? Maybe excluding the weird delivery. The original iPod focused on its storage capacity and convenience, not its sound quality ...

One of Apple’s greatest products ever was the original iPod. You might even still be using it today, but technology is always marching forward–in other words, you can’t figure out a way to ...