History of Your Life in 4 Objects/ Late Teenage...

My iPod. iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. Apple Inc is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The iPod line came from Apple's 'digital hub' category, when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers has well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players "big

and clunky or small and useless," with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful," so Apple decided to develop its own. The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco. AFter Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door" which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods in the relationship between a personal computer and the music player. The reason I chose this object for my late teenage is because during my last year of secondary school and throughout sixth form I can't remember a day I didn't take my iPod into school with me. I think my interest in music obviously played a large part in my attachment to my iPod and since then its significance has simply grown to the point where I'd be devastated if I lost it.