They have made a billion journeys on the Tube (London subway system) bearable and been flourished by the rich, famous and powerful.
The super slim music player with the shuffle function is simply the first indispensable style icon of the 21st century, and last Tuesday (10th April), the 100th millionth iPod was sold.
Apple sold its first iPod in October 2001 and since then has introduced almost a dozen new models, including 5 generations of iPod, 2 generations of iPod Mini, 2 generations of iPod Nano and 2 generations of iPod Shuffle.
Some cool facts:
- To listen to all the 7,500 songs on a 30GB iPod can hold non-stop would take 375 days
- And if all the iPods were stood end to end, they would stretch roughly 10,000 km, from London to New York and back again – that would make a pretty cool bridge
- Even The Queen owns a silver iPod!
More Apple news over here.
