The people use the ipod to listen music and to keep information

This is use to enjoy and have fun

This is use to 24 hours of music playback, up to 4 fours of video playback LCD color 2

When Apple, a computer-maker, launched its pocket-sized music-player in October 2001,
there was no shortage of sceptical answers. Critics pointed to its high price—at $399, the iPod cost far more than rival music players—and to the difficulty Apple would have competing in the cut-throat consumer-electronics market. Worse, Apple launched the iPod in the depths of a technology slump. Internet discussion boards buzzed with jokes that its name stood for "idiots price our devices" or "I prefer old-fashioned discs."
Such criticisms were quickly proven wrong. The iPod is now the most popular and fashionable digital music-player on the market, which Apple leads (see chart). Apple has been unable to meet demand for the latest model, the iPod mini. On the streets and underground trains of New York, San Francisco and London, iPod users (identifiable by the device's characteristic white headphone leads) are ubiquitous. Fashion houses make iPod cases; pop stars wear iPods in their
videos. The iPod is a hit.
Its success depends on many factors, but the most important is its vast storage capacity. The first model contained a five gigabyte hard disk, capable of holding over 1,000 songs. The latest models, with 40 gigabyte drives, can hold 10,000. Before the iPod, most digital music players used flash-memory chips to store music, which limited their capacity to a few dozen songs at best. Apple correctly bet that many people would pay more for the far larger capacity of a hard
disk. Apple's nifty iTunes software, and the launch of the iTunes Music Store, from which music can be downloaded for $0.99 per track, also boosted the iPod's fortunes.
It is easy to dismiss the iPod as a fad and its fanatical users as members of a gadget-obsessed cult. But the 3m or so iPod users worldwide are an informative minority, because hard-disk-based, iPodlike devices are the future of portable music. According to In-Stat/MDR,
a market-research firm, iPods account for 22% of digital music-players overall, but 71% of hard-disk-based players (see chart), the fastestgrowing segment: over the next five years their sales will grow by 45% a year, overtaking flash-based players during 2005. So what iPod users
do today, the rest of us will do tomorrow. Their experience shows how digital music-players will transform the consumption of music.