Lad hacking his iPod so it can run Spotify

Lad hacking his iPod so it can run Spotify

The iPod was a great gadget that could play lots of music. However, the hardware quickly became quite obsolete after the iPhone and the Android headphones began to appear and could play countless more songs than the iPods could ever do. A guy named Guy Dupont liked his 17 year old iPod so much that […]

Apple counts the latest iPod Nano model as “vintage”

Apple counts the latest iPod Nano model as “vintage”

Apple has now added the latest iPod Nano model to its list of what they call “vintage” products. Apple released the first iPod Nano in 2005 and 2015 the latest version of the seventh generation of iPod Nano released, a product that Apple officially stopped selling in 2017. Apple usually puts products on its vintage […]

Steve Jobs Named Interim CEO of Apple

Steve Jobs Named Interim CEO of Apple

September 16, 1997 Twelve years to the day after resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs is named Interim CEO of Apple. Only seven months earlier, Jobs’ company NeXT was purchased by Apple and just two months earlier Gil Amelio resigned as Apple CEO. Much of the technology acquired with the purchase of NeXT was used to build the Mac OS […]

Itunes Music Store lunches

Itunes Music Store lunches

17 years ago, Apple Computer launches the iTunes Music Store. The store sells music for 99¢ a song for use with the Apple iPod and iTunes software. It is not the first service to sell digital music, but it will become the first to gain widespread popularity. The service will be an instant success, selling over one million songs in its […]