This was carried over to the first iPhones since the connector handled all major use cases – charging and data transfer, along with support for certain accessories.Īfter nearly a decade of using the 30-pin connector Apple wanted something more modern, something sleeker. The third-generation iPod replaced FireWire with a proprietary 30-pin dock connector. It is exactly the 400Mbps variant that was used in the first iPod and it is nearly as fast as the peak USB 2.0 speed of 480Mbps. FireWire tends to be named after the speed it supports, e.g. Instead of USB, Apple picked FireWire for its first iPod in 2001, a connector that had only recently been adopted on Macs. It would take over an hour to fill the internal storage using that slow connection. However, it only had a USB 1.1 port, which topped out at 12Mbps. The Creative Nomad Jukebox came out in September 2000 with a 6GB hard drive (1GB more than the original iPad). The first Nomad launched with a Parallel port (you may also have heard it as a “printer port”), later models moved to USB (and some featured FireWire). After all, you have to transfer gigabytes worth of songs from your computer to the player. Part of the credit goes to iTunes, of course, but we think the connector was important too. However, in typical Apple fashion it was the ease of use that made the iPod so successful. There were MP3 players before it, including ones with more storage – as that infamous Slashdot comment mentions, the Creative Nomad could fit more songs. The iPod was revolutionary not because it could play MP3s, but because of how easy it made it to organize and load a whole music library into a pocketable device.
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