Daniel Slotta
Research expert covering Greater China
iPod - statistics & facts
The iPod, Apple's pocket-sized music device, was first released to the consumer market in 2001. Two years later, the company launched the iTunes Music Store, offering an innovative combination of software and hardware for music listening. As a result, the iPod was a dominant product within the digital music player market and is considered one of Apple's biggest successes. Over the course of 18 years through to 2019, Apple released iPod models such as the Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, and Touch. The only model still available and in production is the seventh-generation iPod Touch, first released in May 2019.
