In truth, there isn’t just one person that can be credited as the actual “inventor” of the iPod. It took many individuals and groups to end up with the finished product, but we’ll give you a brief history anyway.
The first in the list is of course Steve Jobs. Jobs was looking for ways to push his Macintosh computers, since he has always lacked market share compared to PC computers. Who exactly came up with the ‘music player’ idea is unknown, it was probably a collaborated effort, but Jobs wanted to pursue it.
Jon Rubenstein can be credited to putting the initial pieces together. He did a lot of the research to see if such a device was even feasible, in which they quickly found that it was.
Finalizing the product was in the hands of a man named Jonathan Ive, and he’s not only the lead designer of the iPod, but the iMac as well.
Jonathan and his team came up with the prototypes and tweaked the product into what you see today. Jonathan doesn’t like to give himself credit though, he points back to Apple as a whole and likes to give everyone in the process credit for all of their hard work into putting together the final product.
So, who invented the iPod? Apple did, plain and simple.
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i like this article is simple and informative.
i thought that Kane Kramer from the UK invented like the design and stuff for the iPod. Then the Apple company shopped him to the USA so it could be like modified and stuff. So, they could put it on the market.
* shipped not shopped my bad
So, who invented the iPod? Apple or that jon rubinstein?
Wowww, thank you! this helped me on my ind. tech project alot. (:
Well.
First of all, Do you REALLY know who did it because theres ALOT! of people saying different thiings.
You Need To MAKE SURE your facts are riight!!
i’m Not Saying You’re Wrong.
Im just stating that other people have told me differently.
People told me Apple,Jon Rubinstein,Kane Kramer..
So who is it REALLY?
Can It Bee All Of Them?
Yes It Can.
Can it Beee Just One Of Them…
The answers Yuppers.
Soo yeeeah.. Im stiill Gonna Use your Info for my project but, I sware If You’re Wrong i will Cahhment AGAIN AND AGAIN!
[On How your Wrong(:]
Dont Thiink I Wont.
Tootles.
And ONE last thiing…
I’m Reallly Not Trying To Bee Meean.
I still Thiink You’re Riight.
Soo, Yeaah(:
Byee.
Hah, ok well.. I tried to verify my facts with multiple sources before I wrote the post, so I hope it’s accurate. Please let me know otherwise, and I apologize if that is the case.
I hope this is rite im doing a reaserch paper on this and on a different website it said differently and im not saying ur wrong just hoping ur rite
I don’t really see any articles that completely contradict mine, actually the same names come up in most articles I have been reading out there just now. If you see more names that’s understandable, since Jonathan Ive’s team consisted of people that I did not name, which I might go back and edit to include them later on.