Exactly what Apple was looking for. Apple's new media player was now possible. The first iPod was announced on October 23, 2001. More from Tech ...

We don’t know whether a first-generation iPod could run Doom, but we know Rockbox was capable of it on other players.

So have we. And thanks to [Cabel] of at Panic.com, we have a rare glimpse at a prototype first generation Apple iPod. In the days before you could just stream your favorite music directly from ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

Steve Jobs was well-known to prove a point in a memorable way, and that was certainly the case when Apple was designing the first iPod. Former Apple employee Amit Chaudhary recently wrote about ...