Apple's iPod was an important leap forward in music portability, with the first iPod able to hold around 1000 songs simultaneously. The iPod was not always small and portable. It was once about the same size as a slab cake from a grocery store.
Panic, an app developer, has shown images of an early Apple iPod prototype. It looks more like a paving block than a portable media player. Although you could technically still carry this large device on your commute, it wouldn't be comfortable and would attract stares.
Panic posted the images on Saturday in a blog post to commemorate the 20th anniversary since the original iPod's launch on October 23, 2001. The photos show that Apple's prototype is three times larger than the actual iPod, measuring 12.06 by 7.29 inches.
However, it could double as a self defense tool so that is what I am suggesting.
Never talk to my son or me again. Credit: Panic
The custardy grandfather of iPod was likely light enough to swing too. Panic opened the embryonic iPod to examine its internals and discovered a lot of space inside. You can be sure that Apple was at this stage more concerned with finalizing circuitry than it was about size.
Panic writes that "Clearly, this revision was very similar to the internals the finished iPod." "In fact, the date [affixed on the internal circuitry] September 3, 2001 indicates that this one was made only two months prior to its introduction."
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