Seeing Iphone and iPod on the neighboring shelves of the store, the uninitiated in the details of the development of Apple will ask a completely logical question: "What is the difference between an iPhone and an iPod?" The sales assistant will answer that these are two fundamentally different devices. But is this statement true?
Currently, it is difficult to imagine a person who would not have heard about Apple Corporation and the devices it puts on the market. The prefix "I" in the name of each of the devices with a clear hint of personal devices brought
Steve Jobs corporations billions. What is the secret of such popularity, and how does the iPhone differ from the iPod? The answers to these questions are simple and complex at the same time - a kind of paradox. In order to understand its causes, you need to go a little deeper into history and remember why the developers of the iPhone and iPod chose this concept for their devices.
The first iPod was released in 2001. White case, small dimensions, minimalism in controls anda sufficiently large display - that's what people who had the first generation of iPods will forever remember. The hard disk capacity of the player was a sensational 5 gigabytes. The very appearance of such a player has already been a whole event. Of course, the idea of personal players for listening to music was not new at that time - the cassette Walkman became the pioneers, but due to the advent of the MP3 format, there was no need to carry a bunch of cassettes or discs with you - now it became possible to store a large media library in
device itself. Convenient operation, high-quality sound and the ability to easily download music directly from a personal computer won the hearts of Apple fans forever, and the corporation itself brought huge profits from sales.
As time went on, Apple took steps forward, continuing its concept of device personalization. So, in 2004, the iPod mini went on sale, which has an even more compact size. The next step was the release of the iPod Photo, which was equipped with a color display and the ability to store and view photos. It was at this moment that the idea came to the bright mind of the CEO of Apple Corporation - to create a product that can combine all the useful gadgets that users have to carry with them separately. This is how the idea for the iPhone was born. Here it is already possible to dot the "i", and to the question asked at the very beginning - "what is the difference between an iPhone and an iPod?" - give a detailed answer. The iPhone is nothing but an enhanced iPod.
Initially, the project to develop a smartphone was called differently, and they developed, by the way, not a smartphone at all, but a tablet, as Jobs later admitted. In 2005, a project called "Purple-1" failed miserably, and for some time the idea of creating a
multigadget has been shelved. They returned to this idea only two years later, and under the code name "Purple-2", the company's engineers began to develop a smartphone that will be released in January 2007. The smartphone combines a multimedia player, a pocket computer and a telephone. The smartphone will receive its real name - Iphone-2G - just half an hour before the presentation. This move by Jobs will be the beginning of a long lawsuit with Cisco Systems, the owner of the rights to the "Iphone" trademark.
Iphone-2 went on sale in the summer of 2007 and was a sensational success. The company also did not abandon the iPod and continued to release new versions of this line. The possibilities of the player expanded more and more and kept pace with the times. At the moment, iPod and Iphone have approximately equal capabilities, and the question "what is the difference between an iPhone and an iPod" can be answered - only the ability to make calls through the Iphone.
