iPod - Why Not Just Get a Phone?

Tony Fadell holding the first generation of iPod

I'm doing this post because of the previous post that I did, it was about Tony Fadell. He was the man who created the concept and initial design of the first iPod, he also has his own product called the Nest (which I'm going to talk about in my next post). With Tony Fadell, the idea of having "1000 songs in your pocket" became a reality in 2001. 

    

Sales:

The first iPod sales were not that great, however in 2004 iPod became very successful with the release of the Classic 4G iPod with approximately around 2 million units sold worldwide. Even much more successful since they released the 2005 models which rocketed up to over 5 million units sold worldwide, and the product continues to get profit each year. You can see the list of iPod sales throughout the years since it was first released to public in 2001:

Models:

iPod is known well for its various and different kinds of models throughout the years. Until now it has over 5 different models with 25 different iPods in total. The 5 different models are iPod Classic with around 6 generation of iPods, iPod Mini with 2 generation of iPods, iPod Nano with 7 different iPods, iPod Shuffle with 4 generations and last but not least is the iPod Touch with 6 kinds of iPods. Here are some different models of iPods:

The first time I saw something like this was when I was still in elementary school, it was an MP4 type which you can listen to music and watch a movie or videos with. I thought, "Wow, I gotta have one of these!" I was so excited about it until my bro told me, "Why not just get a mobile phone?" It kinda hit me in the face cause he's got a point. A mobile phone can do those also plus you can call and much more stuff (besides I didn't have a phone at the time). In 2001 mobile phones were still kinda sucky so I understand that the idea of iPod was to make listening to music so much easier, but technology advanced and I don't really get why people would still buy these iPods when they have their mobile phones. iPods do have nice designs and some which you can even have in different colours, but for me to be attracted they need to come up with something refreshing and new cause these past years iPods seems pretty much the same to me. That is all I have to say about iPods. But, seriously though, just use your phone.