<story><title>iPod Product Timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1216477318434050048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Amazing to think that the original iPod could have gone from pitch to shipping in under a year. Today, the next iPhone is almost certainly in the late stages of engineering validation in January – and while there are many differences between the iPod and the iPhone, the biggest is definitely scale.&lt;p&gt;Apple shipped 125,000 iPods in 2001. Today, they ship that many iPhones &lt;i&gt;every six hours,&lt;/i&gt; or about 200 million per year. (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;263401&amp;#x2F;global-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;263401&amp;#x2F;global-apple-ipho...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>iPod Product Timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1216477318434050048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I miss the 6-month iPod release cycle: every September there would be a new full size iPod, and every February there&amp;#x27;d be a new Mini or Nano.&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone else from the old iPodLinux community here? I was actively moderating the forums in 2005, and fixing countless iPods for friends at school&amp;#x2F;church. These days it seems like everybody&amp;#x27;s moved to Rockbox. I&amp;#x27;m still using a 5.5G with a Kingspec SSD, and lots more gadgets fitted into the space where the HDD used to be.&lt;p&gt;My favourite story from the iPodLinux days was cracking the 4G firmware. leachbj could only make the piezo work, but nilss then used that to dump the binary by making click noises in a soundproof box, and successfully reverse-engineered the rest of the firmware from that.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20140810083116&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newscientist.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dn7085#.XhuoMuIzb6c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20140810083116&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsci...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>