The name of the iPod suggested by the lord Vinnie chieco, an advertising writer living in San Francisco. Chieco worked with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), as part of a small group whose task was to design the best way of presenting the equipment to the general public.
«A thousand songs in your pocket», that was the descriptive slogan of the product, so he did Jobs, so the name did not necessarily have to do with any function of the reproductor.
The strategy of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), about him digital hub It was the flag that led the launch of the apparatus, Mac is a hub or central connection point for many Gadgets, which prompted Chieco to think of concentrators, that is, objects in which others are connected.
Chieco devised that the ultimate concentrator would be a spaceship and he could abandon the spacecraft in a smaller one, but you should go back to the mothership to supply yourself with fuel and food. It was when they showed Checo an iPod with its plastic front that he said: "As soon as I saw the white iPod I thought of 2001", and added: "Open the pod Bay door hall!". And adding the traditional prefix «i» (like that of iMac), they then gave the name to the iPod.
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