iPod

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer.

Quotes

• It's so slim Kate Moss uses it to cut her cocaine.
  • Bill Maher on the iPod nano, from the show Real Time with Bill Maher, episode 8 in series 6. [1]

• No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
  • Rob Malda, on the iPod at its release in 2001.

• The most common format of music on an iPod is “stolen.”
  • Steve Ballmer [2] on October 4, 2004.

• Battery life is dependent on several factors, including frequency of searching/song selection, temperature and possibly the moon's gravitation pull. Times are estimations.
  • Future Shop [3]

• What is this? It says "Ipp odd".
  • Said by a person who has been in a vegetative state for ten years on the TV series House

• Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of songs and albums. Though the medium of music has changed, the iPod experience has kept the spirit of what it means to be a music lover alive.
  • John Mayer, on the iPod
  • Neumayr, Tom (2007). "100 Million iPods Sold" Apple.com (accessed April 9, 2007).

• Less than half the size and weight of the Nomad Jukebox plus a firewire connection that can fill the player's 5GB hard drive in only 10 minutes. When so many Windows and Linux users desire a Mac-only device, you know they have done something right.
  • Source MP3 2001 in Review: The Winners - Richard Menta awarded the original iPod third place in this December 31, 2001 MP3 Newswire article.