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Ipod
Released on October 23, 2001, with 5GB of storage that held 1,000 128kbps MP3s, a two-inch black-and-white screen, and a mechanical scroll wheel surrounded by four buttons, it used a relatively rare cable connector—FireWire—and only worked with Macs at first. -
Windows Xp
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was the successor to both Windows 2000 for professional users and Windows Me for home users. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001. -
Blu-Ray
Blu-ray set out to redefine the video-disc market—but not in the way its creators expected. By waging a protracted war with a competing standard, HD-DVD, Blu-ray's backers ended up making both technologies irrelevant. By holding back adoption, the pointless feud set the stage for the death of physical discs—and for Apple, Hulu, and Netflix to bring online streaming video to the mass market. -
Iphone
The original iPhone was released in 2007 for $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB). The device included a 2-megapixel camera, 3.5-inch 320 x 480 LCD screen, and sold over 30 million units. It proved that people didn't just want a smarter phone—they wanted a computer in their pocket. -
Kindle
The Kindle burst onto the tech scene in November 2007. The first version of the Kindle sold out in just five hours. Crucially, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos saw that he couldn't wait for the book-publishing industry to come up with a compelling e-reader. While the first Kindle was simple, it presaged all the entertainment-focused tablets that followed—including Amazon's own Kindle Fire line.