The iPod is 20 years old, the mp3 file player that after the walkman of the eighties contributed to revolutionize the use of music on the go.
It was October 23, 2001, when the device capable of putting "a thousand songs in the user's pocket" arrived on the shelves, as stated in the slogan with which Apple presented the product to the public.
Now the songs in your pocket thanks to smartphones and streaming services are millions.
Eight months before the iPod, the company then led by Steve Jobs had launched iTunes, the software to organize and play music files that also sold songs and from 2019 it gave way to three distinct apps (for music, podcasts and Apple TV) thus marking the end of an era. Two inseparable operations, iTunes and the iPod, which accelerated the transition from analog to digital music. In the course of these 20 years, the use of songs has changed radically: the iPod, like other MP3 players, has given way to listening to music on the smartphone and streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and others. . And so the iPod, still on the market in the touch version,remains an iconic device that also allows you to play and use many apps available for the big brother iPhone, but it has become a product for nostalgics.