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​The Apple iPod became an almost ubiquitous piece of technology following its debut in 2001, followed by more impressive and specialized devices over the following years. However, iPod production greatly decreased in recent years, and in 2022, Apple announced it would cease production on the patented MP3 player altogether.

The first model of the iPod was shown to the world on October 23, 2001. The 5GB device could be purchased with an all-white finish. Weighing 6.5 pounds, with dimensions comparable to a deck of playing cards, it fit comfortably in users' pockets. It allowed users to carry roughly 1,000 songs at a time, far greater than other MP3 players on the market.

While the iPod changed in a number of ways over the next two decades, the original model set a clear aesthetic tone: rectangular devices with square screens over a circular scroll wheel, which enriched a main select button. The scroll wheel would be updated several times in subsequent generations.

Within two years of the release of the first iPod, storage limits increased from 5GB to 40GB. Around the same time, Apple opened the iTunes Store, which greatly streamlined the process of acquiring new music and adding it to an iPod. At the time, the iTunes Store represented the only legal means of accessing the digital catalog of all major record labels. Individual songs typically sold for $.99.

The first few years of iPod development and refinement focused on helping users get more songs on their devices. In 2004, Apple demonstrated an interest in changing the size of the iPod, with a number of increasingly smaller designs, despite the original model already comparing favorably to other MP3 players on the market. Apple released the iPod Mini early in 2004: it weighed just 3.6 ounces and could be purchased in many different colors. Space on the iPod Mini was limited to the original 5GB of storage; the Mini would be discontinued after the success of the iPod Nano, which was even smaller and achieved 8GB in space by 2006.

Apple also experimented with functionality during this period. In 2005, it released the iPod Shuffle. It was the smallest device of its kind on release, both in terms of size and storage, and did not feature a screen. Users loaded a playlist and the device played the songs in order or at random, affording users only back and forward buttons to move through the playlist.

Another major shift in iPod ideology came in 2005, when Apple announced that iPods, already capable of storing and displaying photos, could play video. With storage sizes up to 60GB, users could play television shows and even movies on their devices.

The release of the iPhone in 2007 changed iPod design and production in many ways, though it also started to make the MP3 player obsolete. The iPhone led directly to the development of the iPod Touch, which took advantage of touchscreen technology, along with many additional features developed for the iPhone. But the iPod lacked a camera and could not use cellular data, only Wi-Fi.

Between 2009 and 2022, most changes to the iPod involved new designs and updates of old classics, such as the fifth-generation iPod Nano in 2010. However, every iPod upgrade was either matched or bested by the iPhone, which could store thousands of songs and provide access to digital music libraries and, more recently, music apps such as Spotify. The most recent iPods could store 256GB and featured A10 processors, but by that point, many users were looking into how to effectively and safely recycle unwanted iPods, marking the end of an era.

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Mutant Chicken Races Provides Quirky Fun

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Mutant Chicken Races Provides Quirky Fun

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A graduate of Yale University School of Law, Joe Masters received a bachelor of arts in math and english from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. During his time at Yale, Joe Masters wrote the popular software program EphPod, which lets users add songs to their iPods directly from their computers, and he is also the developer behind Mutant Chicken Races.

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Forecasted Growth of the Gaming Industry

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Forecasted Growth of the Gaming Industry

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Joe Masters received his juris doctor from Yale Law School in 2004. While attending Yale, Joe Masters led operations at TrentSoft in New Haven, Connecticut, as company president. In his role at TrentSoft he is responsible for various types of software development, including computer games like Mutant Chicken Races.

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Joe Masters received his juris doctor from Yale Law School in 2004. While attending Yale, Joe Masters led operations at TrentSoft in New Haven, Connecticut, as company president. In his role at TrentSoft he is responsible for various types of software development, including computer games like Mutant Chicken Races.

Already the most profitable sector of the entertainment industry by a large margin, The video game industry is poised for significant growth over the next few years, according to market experts. The industry was valued at $151.05 billion in 2019, with an expected growth rate of 12.9 percent between 2020 and 2027. Powered primarily by the PC gaming sector, the video game market is expected to exceed $300 billion by 2025.

By comparison, television and television streaming services, which represent gaming's only competitor in entertainment, was valued at $105 billion in 2018. Avengers: Endgame, meanwhile, stands as the highest grossing motion picture of all time, with a global gross of $2.79 billion. Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V, in comparison, surpassed $1 billion in sales in just 3 days upon the game's release in 2013.

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Forecasted Growth of the Gaming Industry

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Joe Masters received his juris doctor from Yale Law School in 2004. While attending Yale, Joe Masters led operations at TrentSoft in New Haven, Connecticut, as company president. In his role at TrentSoft he is responsible for various types of software development, including computer games like Mutant Chicken Races.

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Joe Masters founded TrentSoft, a software development company based in Connecticut, in 1994, and is currently the president. He has studied at Yale Law School and served as a research assistant for several professors. During his time at the institution, Joe Masters was also a first-year editor for the Yale Law Journal.

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A graduate of Yale Law School, Joe Masters has served as president of TrentSoft in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1994. Joe Masters completed the legal program at Yale while managing operations at TrentSoft. His position with the company involves management of the development of software such as the Mutant Chicken Races computer game.